To the barber, while being shaved by him.
The Great Dictator (1940)
“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
“You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.”
Stirling Silliphant (1918–1996) American screenwriter and film producer
David Zellaby (Martin Stephens), Village of the Damned (speaking to his uncle about himself and the other alien children) (1960).
“When you screw up someone’s life, the least you can do is leave the person alone.”
Chetan Bhagat book Revolution 2020
Revolution 2020 (2011)
“You sod, Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone”
Dannie Abse (1923–2014) Welsh poet and physician
Poem In the theatre, in: Dannie Abse (1997) Welsh retrospective, p. 43
