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I'm kind of a recluse. -- Faye Dunaway
Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . . -- Edward Gibbon
I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside. -- Erykah Badu
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. -- Alfred Nobel
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. -- Emily Dickinson
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. -- Trevor Dunn
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. -- Margaret Fuller
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
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. -- Maya Angelou
I'm not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There's always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I'm a bit of a recluse. -- Ryan Kwanten
Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well. -- Chris Lowe
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. -- Woodrow Wilson
They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse. -- Mike Tyson
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. -- Susan Sontag
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'. -- Thomas Pynchon
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we. -- Caroline Knapp
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. -- Yoshida Kenko
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime. -- Donald Miller
Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located". -- James Nicoll
When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse. -- Bob Dylan
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there. -- Elisha Cuthbert
You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down. -- Frederick Lenz
This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses. -- Alexei Panshin
Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding. -- Steig Larsson
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals. -- Tamora Pierce
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse. -- Julian Casablancas
I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company. -- Billie Whitelaw
I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope. -- Al Jourgensen
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. -- Morris Gleitzman
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.' -- Caroline Knapp
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think. -- Agnetha Faltskog
If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job. -- Chris Lowe
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. -- Yoshida Kenko
Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight. -- Shawn Amos
I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them. -- Christopher Lloyd
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there. -- Elisha Cuthbert
I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine. -- Amber Le Bon
My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room. -- Alessandra Torresani
The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain. -- Ben Daniels
I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse. -- Kirk Kerkorian
There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea. -- Dave Gahan
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse. -- Barack Obama
I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write -- Katherine Mansfield
Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods. -- Daniel J. Rice
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. -- Samuel Parr
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. -- Dean Koontz
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams. -- Woodrow Wilson
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency. -- Alice James
A writer should be a recluse. Why share words with a few friends in the moment when they can be written down in solitude and shared with everybody at any time? -- Jarod Kintz
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry. -- Charles Bukowski
Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying." -- Sylvia Plath

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