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"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."
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"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."

"When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things."

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you."

"And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms."

"Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker."

"I'm not most women...I'm getting that."

"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."

"The worst way to drown is in mainstream."
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"One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life."

"You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured."

"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
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