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Quotes About Individuality

The whole thing of what I've been trying," you said, "is that you're different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don't think about them, because of the way you are.
~ Daniel Handler
Put your hair up, Min. The secret ingredient is not your hair.
~ Daniel Handler
Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren't virgins, Min. That's why there's people to begin with.
~ Daniel Handler
I'm not a cuckoo, either. I'm a fool is what.
~ Daniel Handler
All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is.
~ Daniel Handler
Que si está bien no ser virgen, sí. La mayoría de la gente no lo es, Min. Para empezar, por eso existe la gente.
~ Daniel Handler
But more often the woman was alone and would walk around naked for some reason, neither beautiful enough nor ugly enough to make sense.
~ Daniel Handler
You don't say," Helena said. She took a cigarette out of her ripped purse and lit it because she smoked. She was a smoker.
~ Daniel Handler
I want you to love me in particular," Helena said. "I'm not the same as an American. I'm my own species and I want you to be picky about it, if that's the expression.
~ Daniel Handler
All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, eight if you're bisexual and everyone is.
~ Daniel Handler
Most of those people won't meet my eyes, now, but I'm not one of them. Every morning I get up, and while brushing my teeth, look at my showered self, calmly foaming at the mouth.
~ Daniel Handler
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
~ Daniel Keyes
Who's to say my light is better than your darkness?
~ Daniel Keyes
Is life worth living in the jaws of society's trash can for misfit minds? What can I possibly achieve or contribute to mankind in this steel and concrete box with a damn loud laughing wall that moves? Just give up?
~ Daniel Keyes
I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you wheeled me into that operating room!
~ Daniel Keyes
I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—
~ Daniel Keyes
Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness?
~ Daniel Keyes
Are you content? If so, you can afford to ignore the condemnation of the crowd.
~ Daniel Keyes
Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say? . . .
~ Daniel Keyes
Até um homem de mente fraca quer ser como os outros homens. Uma criança pode não saber como se alimentar, ou o que comer, mas ela conhece a fome.
~ Daniel Keyes
Não sou apenas uma coisa, mas também uma maneira de ser – uma das muitas maneiras –, e saber os caminhos que percorri e os que me restam vai me ajudar a entender o que estou me tornando.
~ Daniel Keyes
I danced with too many squares tonight. Let's melt 'em all down.
~ Daniel Keyes
Exceptional refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional.
~ Daniel Keyes
man walking on stilts among giants
~ Daniel Keyes