My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. — Stockard Channing Copy Share Image
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I… — Shirley Brice Heath Copy Share Image
Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot… — David Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ... — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here… — Sue Fitzmaurice Copy Share Image
I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art. — Gene Black Copy Share Image
Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
