The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

I was never a cardholder. But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

I admit I have no forgiveness. If anyone is ever rude to me, however much they may try to make up, I can't bring myself to re-establish the old [connection]. And when they drop me, I have a sense of relief.