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Recluse Quotes

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

Julian Casablancas
Lazy, Illusion, Recluse

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

Al Jourgensen
Hate, Misanthrope, Recluse

I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write

Katherine Mansfield
Writing, Recluse
Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

I'm kind of a recluse.

Faye Dunaway
Kind, Recluse

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

Daniel Day-Lewis
Children, House, Recluse

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

Erykah Badu
Kind, Recluse
"The Survivors: Erykah Badu". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. November 3, 2011.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

Thomas Pynchon
Belief, Recluse, Journalist
Phone call to CNN, June 5, 1997.

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.

Caroline Knapp
Land, Recluse, Walks

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Margaret Fuller
Mind, Criticism, Recluse
Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

Edward Gibbon
Ideas, Recluse, Communicate
Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.844, Modern Library

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