Quotes About Individuality

Despite the man's intimidating mountain-man looks, Wallace dated men, women and some people who seemed to skate between genders.

She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.

A divorcée empty nester who didn't regret her solitude? She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.

And judging by what she'd been saying when he walked in, she was also fond of penises. He really couldn't overlook such an important aspect of her personality.

In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

Dance halls were where young men and women conducted their courtships, and most had one clear objective: to find a spouse. Mercedes was an exception. The last thing on her mind was to find a soulmate.... When she went out on a Friday and Saturday night she had no desire for anything beyond the life-enhancing thrill of the dance.

have learned that the source of joy is not to be found in another person and we should not look for someone

I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

But you know you don't have to mirror that attitude, right? I mean, wouldn't it be better to be your own dazzling portrait rather than someone else's reflection

Besides," Dara said, "he didn't see me the way other people did.

For coffee-stained girls in libraries.

A girl's sense of her womanly self depends only in part on how closely she has followed her mother's example in attire and actions, or how much she loves or hates or respects her. It is from both parents that a girl gains her basic identity.

Integral to being emotionally healthy is to have a mother who has the ability to respect her child's differences and not perceive them as betrayals.

Unlike many, I was not intent on reproducing myself, deliberately or accidentally, since one of myself was more than enough for me to handle.

One must listen to them carefully to understand that while pain is universal, it is also utterly private. We

Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything

In their working outfits as busboys, waiters, gardeners, filed hands, fishermen, manual laborers, custodians, or simply the un- and underemployed, these shabby examples of the lumpen blended into the background wherever they happened to be, always seen as a mass, never noticed as individuals.

I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese. "It's okay, but the problem with it is the other person involved. She has a mind of her own. You can't say the same thing about things.

Why should I worry about deviating from the masses when I am also me and myself? Am I not a mass? Am I not already a collective? Do I not contain multitudes? Am I not a universe unto myself? Am I not always infinitely dialectical as I synthesize the thesis of me and the antithesis of myself?

I am not made like any that I have seen; I venture to believe that I was not made like any that exist.

consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Nothing Emerson wrote was ever truer of America, but

Yes, I am flawed, we are all flawed, even you, but I blame my flaws on the fact that all my life I only ever aspired to one thing—to be human. That was my first mistake, since I was already human, a fact not always recognized by others.

Art seems to be the only place we can liberate our many selves.