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#1

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

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#2

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

tags: flaws, individuality

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#3

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
― George Carlin

tags: grass, hero, heroism, individualism, individuality, nature

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#4

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

tags: beauty, ebullience, enthusiasm, individuality, life, people

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#5

“Where's your will to be weird?”
― Jim Morrison

tags: individuality, musicians, weirdness, wierd

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#6

“It never got weird enough for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: individuality, uniqueness

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#7

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
― Confucius

tags: individuality, inspiration, validation

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#8

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: conditioning, evolution, evolving, freedom, individuality, jim-morrison, murder, parents, potential, progress, self, self-awareness

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#9

“I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

tags: fashion, individuality, self-expression

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#10

“I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: choices, crowd, individuality, life

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#11

“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

tags: independent-thought, individuality, thinking-outside-of-the-box

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#12

“No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

tags: feminism, individuality

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#13

“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart of every single hearer,
With deepest power, in simple ways.
You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,
Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,
Blowing on a miserable fire,
Made from your heap of dying ash.
Let apes and children praise your art,
If their admiration’s to your taste,
But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,
Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

tags: admiration, art, idolatry, individuality, legacy, love, masterpiece, quest

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#14

“Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: art, individuality, inspirational, life, new, otherness

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#15

“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

tags: coming-of-age, human-nature, individuality

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#16

“I'd rather be a freak than a clone.”
― Joanne Harris

tags: individuality

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#17

“A man is known by the books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#18

“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”
― Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado

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#19

“Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.”
― Janeane Garofalo, Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction

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#20

“Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

tags: change, latin

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