“A long time back, I used to listen to a song by Dennis Wilson. It was from 'Pacific Ocean Blue', the album he made after The Beach Boys fell apart. There was a line in it I loved: "loneliness is a very special place." As a teenager, sitting on my bed on autumn evenings, I used to imagine that place as a city, perhaps at dusk, when everyone turns homeward and the neon flickers to life. I recognized myself even then as one of its citizens and I liked how Wilson claimed it; how he made it sound fertile as well as frightening.”
— Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone : Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Tagged: Loneliness, Quote of the Moment, Music, Nostalgia, Good writing
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