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"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity."
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"Don't you know that most people take most things because that's what's given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?"
"Instead of trying to hide yourself from the world, make it your signature trait. Make what most people think to be the worst of you become something your proud of."
"Don't follow the crowd; let the crowd follow you."
"The world says fit in, the universe says stand out."
"An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts."
"Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker."
"DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem."
"I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you,' he said.'And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn't."
"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."
"No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary."
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"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."
"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence."
"Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me."
"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."
"I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading."
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