“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
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American writer 1917–1967Related quotes
“Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.”
Birthday Letter to his Daughter (1966)
Context: You should fight to be among the best in school. The very best in every sense and you already know what that means; study and revolutionary attitude. In other words: good conduct, seriousness, love for the revolution, comradeship. I was not that way at your age but I lived in a different society, where man was an enemy of man. Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.
“It was well to have thus once really lived.”
Referenced in T he Public Domain Review http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/16/elizabeth-bislands-race-around-the-world/
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“We will quickly measure you one way or another. We have no living ex-members.”
Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 7
Context: "This is the Improbable Club," said the President-Emeritus in a heavy muffled voice, "and you things have made an improbable entry. Many unqualified persons have attempted to crash this Club, but you have done it literally. Whether you will be able to qualify for our high membership is another thing. It will not matter. We accept, for a brief moment at least, all who come here as members. We will quickly measure you one way or another. We have no living ex-members. Sit you down, all, and unwind your ears. Remember, each topper must be topped."
“The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”