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FUNNY HERMIT QUOTES
Dear reclusive reader, de-cave and humor yourself with a few funny hermit quotes, humorous sayings about recluses, and all stuff related.
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"HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable."
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Hermits have no peer pressure."
— Steven Wright
"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."
— Emily Dickinson
"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."
— Laurence Sterne
"If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it."
— Jean Cocteau
"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."
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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— Thomas Pynchon
Second Hermit: "Hello, are you a hermit by any chance?"
Frank the Hermit: "Yes that's right. Are you a hermit?"
Second Hermitz: "Yes, I certainly am."
Frank the Hermit: "Well I never. What are you getting away from?"
Second Hermit: "Oh, the usual—people, chat, gossip, you know."
Frank the Hermit: "Oh, I certainly do—it was the same with me. I mean there comes a time when you realize there's no good frittering your life away in idleness and trivial chit-chat. Where's your cave?"
— Monty Python's Flying Circus (See entire bit at IMDB)
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A mildly funny hermit bit from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Includes prologue and epilogue from the original show.
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