…no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

The accident of our lives bruises The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.

Do not be afraid to color outside the lines. Take risks and do not be afraid to fail. Know that when the world knocks you down, the best revenge is to get up and continue...

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Style is when they’re running you out of town and you make it look like you’re leading the parade.

Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espionage more difficult. Americans were quirky by nature, making the sorts of eccentric moves that had to be followed up...

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant...

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.

I was thinking, and realised how simple my goal has been— just to be me! I didn’t want to be a good person and change the world; I just wanted to be me! Against all...

In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is...

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity...

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn’t happen.

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It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that?Lassie, and she always gets a treat So you wonder what your part is Because you’re homeless and depressed But...

Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing...

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to...

Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual.” – Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

I claim the right to be who I want to be. Regardless of my choice, I will find those who agree and those who don’t. I will gain support, and I will confront opposition, but...

Unlike ‘other’ religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become ‘absorbed’ into the deity but rather brought into communion with God through union with Christ thereby maintaining our unique...

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it’s just a bookshelf. Make a stab in...

Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.

They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. It wasn’t...

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor...

You shouldn’t want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn’t be like you.

One thing I’ve learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don’t like anyone telling me how I’m supposed to feel or think or what...

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

Out of ignorance or expediency we give all snowflakes the same name.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

People say of me, ‘She’s peculiar.’ They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

We don’t need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches,...

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind...

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves – people who refuse to find out what something is about,...

It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary...

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they’d rather play with yours than theirs. Or...

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Want to know the truth about belonging?It takes courage to belong. It takes bravery to show up in your own skin.It’s easy to fit in. It’s easy to blend in and hide your outrageousness.And it’s...

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

here is little Effie’s headwhose brains are made of gingerbreadwhen the judgment day comesGod will find six crumbsstooping by the coffinlidwaiting for something to riseas the other somethings did–you imagine His surprisebellowing through the general...

In the history of history, there has never been someone with your particular genetic make-up or life experiences. This being the case, we have no reference points with which to compare ourselves, and therefore it...