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Olivia Laing

The Lonely City

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  • Yelena Jetpyspayevaalıntı yaptı6 yıl önce
    You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.
  • ulfadwioalıntı yaptı2 yıl önce
    Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person
  • b5559146454alıntı yaptı3 ay önce
    Many marvellous things have emerged from the lonely city: things forged in loneliness, but also things that function to redeem it.
  • b5559146454alıntı yaptı3 ay önce
    demands of human intimacy. Terrified of physical contact, he rarely left the house without an armoury of cameras and tape recorders, using them to broker and buffer interactions: behaviour that has light to shed on how we deploy technology in our own century of so-called connectivity.
  • b5559146454alıntı yaptı3 ay önce
    Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one’s being as laughing easily or having red hair
  • ulfadwioalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
    I knew what I looked like. I looked like a woman in a Hopper painting. The girl in Automat, maybe, in a cloche hat and green coat, gazing into a cup of coffee, the window behind her reflecting two rows of lights, swimming into blackness. Or the one in Morning Sun, who sits on her bed, hair twisted into a messy bun, gazing through her window at the city beyond.
  • salnajlaaalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
    I’ve come to believe that he was right, that loneliness is by no means a wholly worthless experience, but rather one that cuts right to the heart of what we value and what we need.
  • salnajlaaalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
    I wanted to understand what it means to be lonely, and how it has functioned in people’s lives, to attempt to chart the complex relationship between loneliness and art.
  • salnajlaaalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
    Interesting, the idea that loneliness might be taking you towards an otherwise unreachable experience of reality.
  • salnajlaaalıntı yaptıgeçen yıl
    Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one’s being as laughing easily or having red hair.
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