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"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
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"There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence."
"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
"Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me."
"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs."
"Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took."
"On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, never the kind of person who deserved to die in the way that he did."
"People always say that digital cameras are much more stable than film cameras, but the truth is that digital cameras, or any kind of digital technology, is one of the most unstable things in the world. A film camera can last decades if you know how to look after it, but digital things can break down instantly. A violent storm, a nuclear bomb, even something as minor as a cracked screen or the releasing of newer models, can make a digital product just a block of useless metal."
"Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. "This is a wicked blast, Jud would say, and Mandy would snap photos with a 35mm disposable film camera, photos she wished very much she could step into sometimes."
"One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real."
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