Anneli Rufus Quotes

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• Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering…
• We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure…
• Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.
• Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a…
• The whole world is a personality cult.
• The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.
• After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.
• We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner…
• Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but…
• We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course,…
• And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting…

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