The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person. β¨ Jonathan Tropper (2012). One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel, p.42, Penguin
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