"There is a society in the deepest solitude."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 729-31, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Chapter X, 1922.

Isaac D'Israeli

#Solitude Quotes

“Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.”
“Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.”
“The next step is the path you're on.”
“When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.”
“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”
“Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are also the basic, salient entities of economic life or that they are particularly useful for probing the mysteries of economic structure, the reasons for rise and decline of wealth. Indeed, the failure of national governments and blocs of nations to force economic life to do their bidding suggests some sort of essential irrelevance.”
“Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.”

Source : "Chatological Humor: The Big Fat Debate, Part 2". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.
“If you listen to soul music, or R&B music, or Blues music, a lot of that came from church music and spiritual music, and music has always been a really really powerful tool that people have used to get them closer to God - whatever they define God as. And for me that's always been part of what drew me to it and keeps me coming back for more.”

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