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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Joyce Carol Oates
Loneliness, Realizing, Hungry
Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Faithless: Tales of Transgression”, p.36, Harper Collins

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

Joyce Carol Oates
Loneliness, Self, Devil

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Joyce Carol Oates
Loneliness, Writing, Hazards
"A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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