Quotes About Individuality

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

Being a woman seemed to mean listening to the music boys liked and neither dancing nor singing along.

loving music didn't have to mean wanting the same song all the time, or believing it perfect, and that what you loved didn't have to add up, let alone define you.

Will asked Miss Beasley what kind of man Glendon Dinsmore had been and she answered, as different from you as air is from earth. He asked which he was, air or earth? She laughed and said, "That's what I like about you—you really don't know.

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The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Live up to your potential, not down to others expectations.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Don't Let That Horse . . ." from A Coney Island of the Mind. Don't let that horse eat that violin cried Chagall's mother But he kept right on painting And became famous And kept on painting The Horse With Violin In Mouth And when he finally finished it he jumped up upon the horse and rode away waving the violin And then with a low bow gave it to the first naked nude he ran across And there were no strings attached

watching the world walk by in its curious shoes

I have heard a hundred housebroken Ezra Pounds. They should all be freed. It is long since I was a herdsman.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

Cualquier cliente puede tener un coche pintado del color que quiera, siempre que sea negro».

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.

It is easy to lose ourselves in corporate imperatives, to feel we are beholden to forces that might not be aligned with our personal aspirations and priorities, or with how we wish to give expression to our lives.

The domestic cat seems to have greater confidence in itself than in anyone else.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

I was an only child-- and so I became an only man." Joshua Bigg The Tenth Commandment

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

What is true is what is true for you. No one has any right to force data on you and command you to believe it or else. If it is not true for you, it isn't true. Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest. There is nothing unhappier than one who tries to live in a chaos of lies.