Norman MacCaig Quotes

“I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.”

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“I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.”

“We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.”

“Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.”

“...for a man is a Herdentier - an animal that always follows the herd, a gregarious animal - and quickly follow's its neighbour example.”

“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”

“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone...”

“A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.”

“The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.”