# Quote — Kingsley Amis, The Green Man

> I told myself that I could soon start to relish the state of being alone […], only to find as usual that I was stuck with myself.[…] Two's company, which is bad enough in all conscience, but one's a crowd.

- Author: [Kingsley Amis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis.md)
- Book: [The Green Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/the-green-man.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis#The_Green_Man_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/the-green-man/i-told-myself

## More from this book

> From an outsider's point of view, a naked woman out of doors is either a sun-worshipper or a rape victim; a man in the same state is either a sexual criminal or a plain lunatic.

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