#loner

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#am #around #essential #face #i

I am essentially a loner. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#essentially #i #i am #loner

I'm a loner. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#loner

I'm a loner. ↗

— Larry Bird

#loner

I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar. ↗

— Selma Blair

#lived #loner #much #pretty #radar

I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room. ↗

— Brett Favre

#consider #especially #game #get #gone

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands. ↗

— Billy West

#coming #even #i #loner #music

Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. Best friends are formed by time. Everyone is someone's friend, even when they think they are all alone. If the friendship is not working, your heart will know. It's when you start being less than perfectly honest and perfectly earnest in your dealings. And it's when the things you do together no longer feel right. However, sometimes it takes more effort to make it work after all. Stick around long enough to become someone's best friend. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#best-friend #best-friends #friend #friends #friendship

I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a letter? A mysterious but truthful answer is that while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me. I used to rattle them off easily enough; why is the challenge of writing to friends and acquaintances too much for me now? Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#correspondence #letters #loners #solitude #communication