Ambrose Bierce
“ALONE, adj. In bad company.”
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906)
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Ambrose Bierce
Source
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906)
In full
“ALONE, adj. In bad company.”
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Public domain in the United States
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One of the dictionary’s shortest entries, and one of its most personal — written by a man estranged from his family and famously hard to be close to. He defines being alone not as emptiness but as bad company: yourself.
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It made me laugh, and then it didn’t. That’s the whole reason it’s here.
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