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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
"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."
"I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre."
"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."
"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
"If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of the finite."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."
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