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"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing."
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"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"
"The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember."
"I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes."
"A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still."
"Society destroys your individuality, your soul."
"In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold."
"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."
"You'll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in."
"Dare to be different."
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"The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion."
"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."
"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."
"I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn."
"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."
"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."
"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."
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