Quotes About Individuality

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

I don't care to belong to any organization that accepts me as a member.

All people are born alike — except Republicans and Democrats.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

1 Ensayo sobre las ventajas de dormir solo* * Nota del Editor: El autor decidió dejar en blanco este capítulo.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

On the surface, we are all different. We ascribe to a variety of belief systems, attain our identity from various stories, get our customs from diverse cultures, and so on. And, rightly or wrongly, we generally define ourselves by these differences—there is no denying that. However, when we look beneath the surface, we discover certain universal elements.

For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into "let's all be the same." Male and female biological differences are discounted, because "male" and "female" are considered "outdated social constructs," and while that is partially true, the social construct stance becomes clear reductionism when it totally discounts clear differences in male and female biology (i.e., androgyny is not the same as equality).

I will not like everyone, not everyone will like me, and that is OK.

It can be helpful to think of humanity like a pearl necklace. Each human being is a pearl with distinct characteristics, but underneath there is a string that ties us all together, invisible to the naked eye.

Do your best to maintain an authentic style of writing. If you are a serious person, be serious. If you are a comic, be funny. Do not choose a style or a tone that is different from the person you really are.

Un jour Un jour je m'attendais moi-même Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes Pour que je sache enfin celui-là que je suis Moi qui connais les autres - CORTÈGE -

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

Calitatea ta uman? nu trebuie s? depind? de a celorlal?i

Zapatos que les apretaban y les sacaban ampollas y que tu padre impedía que dejaran de calzar porque sin zapatos ningún indio podía llegar a ser alguien. Los ingenieros, los abogados, los maestros no calzaban huaraches.

no hay dos miradas a una mujer desnuda iguales, no hay dos desnudeces exactas, como no existe las misma ave a cazar, aunque haya sido cazada antes, escapada y vuelta a cazar en el mismo sitio, el momento las hace diferentes.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Zelda is black and fat. Yolanda is Mexican and homely. Antonio is a cross-eyed Dominican. Duane is of mixed race and has no teeth. Lucille is albino. Elisa is mute. To Fleming, they are all the same: unfit for other work and therefore easy to trust.

Success is fucking up on your own terms.

Uno tiene que estar en algún lado, si tan sólo se pudiera ser sin estar entonces podría ser lo que se dice un alma solitaria.

Vestía pantalones azules muy ajustados y un suéter de lana. Era fea como un escupitajo, pero muy elegante.