{"quotes":[{"text":"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affable","alone","amicable","anchoress","anchorite","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","antisocial","approachable","ascetic","by-oneself","chummy","cloistered","clubby","communicative","companionable","companionless","convivial","cordial","eremite","extrovert","forthcoming","friendless","friendly","genial","gregarious","hail-fellow-well-met","hermit","hermitic","incommunicado","introvert","isolate","isolation","lone-wolf","lonely","loner","lonesome","marabout","misanthrope","misanthropy","on-one-s-own","open","outgoing","recluse","reclusive","responsive","seclude","secluded","sociable","solitarian","solitary","solitudinarian","troglodyte","unaccompanied","unsociable","warm","withdrawn"],"id":125070,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.","author":"Penny Reid","tags":["decisions","reclusive"],"id":216135,"author_id":"Penny+Reid"},{"text":"I avoid the looming visitor,Flee him adroitly around corners,Hating him, wishing him well;Lest if he confront me I be forced to say what is in no wise true:That he is welcome; that I am unoccupied;And forced to sit while the potted roses wilt in the crate or the sonnet coolsBending a respectful nose above such dried philosophiesAs have hung in wreaths from the rafters of my house since I was a child.Some trace of kindliness in this, no doubt,There may be.But not enough to keep a bird alive.There is a flaw amounting to a fissureIn such behaviour.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["poetry","reclusive","solitude","unsociability"],"id":230571,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amwriting","art","artist","artists","hermit","hermits","interview","interviewed","interviewee","interviewees","interviewer","interviewers","isolate","isolation","lone-hunter","marketing","personal-branding","personal-promotion","promotion","reclusive","seclude","seclusion","writer","writers","writing","writing-advice","writing-lesson","writing-lessons","writing-life","writing-tips"],"id":343844,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The internet in general and social networking sites in particular are making people more reclusive than social.","author":"Sharanya Haridas","tags":["indian-","internet","media","reclusive","social-media","social-networks"],"id":372493,"author_id":"Sharanya+Haridas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}