Quotes About Individuality

name is Markos, he said. But call me Marco.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

Don't let what your parents do disappoint you.

Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.

Porque no hay una forma adecuada de planificar la vida ni tampoco de vivirla: sólo un montón de formas inadecuadas.

Would you think he was anybody like you?

I'm not even certain I care to know. Some people were not made to have best friends, and I might be one. Walter might be another, though for different reasons. Acquaintanceship usually suffices for me, which was more or less the one important lesson learned from my Lebanese girlfriend, Selma Jassim, at Berkshire College, since if anything, she believed mutual confidences of almost any kind were just a lot of baloney.

Tony Lamas and fitted polo shirt. And that growing sense

Rien n'est jamais clair car nous disposons tous d'un éventail de moi parmi lesquels choisir.

Though I thought if you grew up in a place with such a strange name—including Saskatchewan (a name I'd rarely heard before)—then you'd always feel strange about yourself.

And there's a whole spectrum of behavior that we refer to politely as 'eccentricity.

Well, fuck them. Make it personal.

What others believe is not my concern, unless they attempt to force it on me.

People are sheep, Ringil raged. Moronic fucking sheep.

We're more than what we do.

Make it personal.

Siempre habrá imbéciles como esos, tragándose dogmas enteros para no tener que pensar por sí mismos.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Self-expression is something that does not—and should not—ever stop.

Jealousy tells us there is room for only one—one poet, one painter, one whatever you dream of being.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific, an origin from which work flows.

Often, creativity is blocked by our falling in with other people's plans for us. We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we should do something else instead.

When we write from the inside out rather than the outside in, when we write about what most concerns us rather than about what we feel might sell, we often write so well and so persuasively that the market responds to our efforts.