Rose Macaulay Quotes

Sometimes I go totally anti-social.

I don't go around making conversation, I just kind of stick to myself.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I'd still mostly be hanging out in my apartment reading books and playing with synthesizers. That said, I grew up in Philly, went to college in Philly, lived in Philly afterwards for a while - almost every formative experience in my life has happened in Philly. Whether I like it or not, Philly is all over everything I do for the rest of my life.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

I'm very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It's nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.

I have no friends and I never leave my house.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

I'm quite a loner. I realized that I'm very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than my partner.

I think I am very anti-social.

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

I am social at times and sometimes, I want my privacy. There are days when I am at my chirpiest best and there are times when I wish to be left alone.

I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.