Harm Quote by Louise Erdrich

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit…

— Dar Williams

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That…

— John Stuart Mill

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are quite frequently eccentric.

— Jane Smiley

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

— John Stuart Mill

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

— Bill Pullman

Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each…

— Andrew Solomon

Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they…

— Pauly Shore

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

— Doris "Granny D" Haddock

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

— Graham Collier

“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.”

— Ben Macintyre

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics…

— Mabel Osgood Wright