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Skagboys (Mark Renton Series Book 1) by Irvine Welsh

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Well, faint hert never won fit bird,

“all humanity’s problems stem from an inability to sit in a quiet room alone.”

Johnson, Fenton. At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (p. 229). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.”
― Blaise Pascal

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“How many relationships endure not from love but because one or both partners fear solitude more than they fear mayhem?”
― Fenton Johnson, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

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“We must teach ourselves to value flux, but more than that, we must teach ourselves to value and attend to friends, not as way-stations between lovers or diversions from the real business of pairing up and marriage, but as relationships of first consequence in their own right.”
― Fenton Johnson, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

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“Why don’t the entertainment industry and religious institutions support more songs, books, movies praising friendship? Because friendship, unlike marriage, offers no capital to church, state, and corporation.”
― Fenton Johnson, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

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“In a society obsessed with coupling (turn on the radio and try to find a song that’s not about true love—getting it, wanting it, losing it, getting it back), the solitary acts as a contemporary court jester, telling truths about our communities that those certified by the laws of state and church are unable to perceive or unwilling to speak aloud.”
― Fenton johnson, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

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