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1 " The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. "
― Susan Sontag
2 " Oh here's a nice one, he brown recluse spider. This once resides in wooded areas. In other words, next to my head while I'm sleeping. ' In a small number of cases, a bite from a brown recluse can produce organ damage with occasional fatalities.' " " That's the worst-case scenario. how can it be? It's called a 'recluse'" " It's been my experience that all recluses have a mean streak. "
3 " A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. "
― Dean Koontz , Velocity
4 " 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 , Women
5 " Seeing his daughter slowly die, coupled with his infinite sadness and misery, the clockmaker becomes a recluse to the tower of the castle and begins to build something behind closed doors, not even his daughter knows what he’s up to. For five years, she only sees him briefly at meal-times before locking himself up in the tower once again..." " ...Did he have a bathroom in the tower?" " Yes, Jack. A big one! En-suite! Power-shower and spa! Where was I!? "
6 " Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be. "
― John Stuart Mill , Autobiography
7 " He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me? "
― David Holdsworth , Angelos
8 " In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong. "
― Sarah Orne Jewett , The Country of the Pointed Firs
9 " 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. "
10 " I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world. "
