
“Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer: Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone.'”
Kurt Vonnegut
more infosource: Timequake (NY: Penguin Book, 1997), 221.
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category: assurance, comfort, company, message
medium: fiction
via: Fannie Bushin“Books are the greatest companions, confessors, confidantes, tutors, a source of pleasure, a cure for loneliness, and to find one, in the middle of an island in Tahiti, in the heart of the Moroccan desert, or at an airport where one is stranded for a night, is to find the friend who reminds us we are not alone.”
Anaïs Nin
more infosource: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol 7, 1966–1974) (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), 104.
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category: airport, book, comfort, companionship, loneliness, reading, travel
medium: diary
notes: Fall, 1969 entry in Nin's diary


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