Mila Dean > Mila's Quotes

“Beauty is relative — right! Do you realize that that, if true, is a veritable abyss?”
― Supervert, Necrophilia Variations

“If a dying man masturbates, is it necrophilia?”
― Supervert, Necrophilia Variations

“What do soy beans and vibrators have in common? They're both meat substitutes.”
― Supervert, Necrophilia Variations

“Only art can make the future love you, and that is what art is about: attraction at a distance, seduction from the past, inveiglement from beyond the grave.”
― Supervert, Necrophilia Variations

“APART.
Such a simple concept. So concrete. So easy to represent on charts or diagrams with dots and pushpins either in or out. Yet real life is not dots. Some of us appear to be in, but we are out. And that is where we want to be. Not just want but need, the way tuna need the sea.
Simple: an orientation, not just a choice. A fact. To paraphrase that Boston song, more than a feeling. We are loners. Which means we are at our best, as Orsino says in Twelfth Night, when least in company.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“The mob thinks we are maladjusted. Of course we are adjusted just fine, not to their frequency. They take it personally.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“Alone, we are alive.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“NONLONERS BORROW A term from Jung and call us introverts. They think it makes them sound intelligent to say so.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“America trembles in fear of loners, yet Charles Manson is a social butterfly.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“Your participation is now optional.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“Is that what they think, then? That loners have no friends?”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“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 requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto

“Is socializing all that great? Riots are socializing. Arguably, more damage is done and time wasted in company with others than alone.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“The most horrifying thing about art is its honesty,”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“Writers' closest companions are inside their heads.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does-when you can't get enough of it.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto

“People say the desert is desolate. Yet for me it's very much alive, full of surprises. As soon as I see those wide-open spaces, I can breathe,”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

“Loners can play well with others-the right others,”
― Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto