Annie Proulx Quotes

I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.

I find people confusing.

I didn't go in to make friends or not make friends.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

I'm aware, as a sane person, that I'm not the best-looking guy in the world. I'm aware of it. But when I go into a party, I will walk out with your girlfriend.

There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

We scientists have way too much a tendency to simplify problems. I guess it actually comes to us naturally. Take the simplest unit, separate out all the confusing, external factors. Study it. Make sure you understand it. And in psychology that means the person studying the individual. But if you want to study our social nature, if you want to study processes that will lead to war and peace, you don't learn all that much by looking at the single individual. A lot of the important things are emergent facts about us, things that you can only see when you get a lot of us interacting.

I never did well meeting strangers, so my favorite part of partying as a couple was that I didn't need to strike up conversation from scratch. If you've ever had to go out and meet new people on your own, you would understand. It can be a bit of an awkward situation. If you're already out at a party with someone you know, it takes that pressure off.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Conversation is a game of circles.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.