Stephen King
Author
"The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone."
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Left Alone
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Things do not get better by being left alone."
James St. James
Author
"It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse."
Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was."
Tony Adams
Footballer
"Left alone with our own heads on, we can be pretty mental."
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"Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply."
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"The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace."
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"There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds."
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"Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you."
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"And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it."
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"I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone."
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"I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded."
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"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."
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