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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."
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"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
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"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
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"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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"The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'"
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"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
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"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs."
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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."
Religion
"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."
Life
"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."
Strength
"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."
Life
"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
People
"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."
Humor
"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
Humor
"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
Man
"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."
Glory
"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."
Criticism
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