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Isolation Quotes


"You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that."


"National isolation breeds national neurosis."


"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."


"A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves."


"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."


"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."


"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."


"The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote."
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