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"There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is nothing gained by giving in to the pressures of group vulgarity."
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"The worst way to drown is in mainstream."
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"To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing."
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"No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary."
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"The world says fit in, the universe says stand out."
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"Dare to be different."
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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?"
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"Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live."
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"Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing."
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"Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity."
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"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."
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"Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have."
Poetry
"The soul is awakened through service."
Service
"Readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions."
Inquiry
"In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons."
Fame
"The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead."
Marriage
"Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener."
Empathy
"I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other."
Relationship
"The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad."
Feminism
"I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me."
Courage
"What all the ads and whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your har, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever."
Satire
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