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"Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity of a lost girl, by saying two things. First, the trivial doings of Paris Hilton are of no importance to me, or anyone else, and I should not be forced to contemplate them. Second, she should be left alone to lead such a life as has been left to her. If this seems paradoxical, then very well."
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"He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be."

"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?"

"I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining."

"She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch."

"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."

"Dare to be different."

"Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live."

"Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity."

"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."

"No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

"If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable."

"The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate."

"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."

"The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has-from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness."

"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."

"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."

"It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed."

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God."
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