“Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood
Others may decieve you
You decide what's good
You decide alone
But no one is alone”
Source: Into the Woods
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Stephen Sondheim16
American composer and lyricist 1930Related quotes
Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 43
“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.
“It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“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).
“How do you always manage to decide?"
"How can you let others decide for you?”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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Heinrich, Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)
“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
