Quotes About Individuality

usually I see myself 1st, be myself, then I wont need to compare myself with someone or do wat he does..that's my life visionary..

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

And it's even in some of the western literature, you know, live and let live. That is such crap. I tell my friends that--even my gay friends bring it up sometimes. I'm like, "That is crap, you know?" I mean, basically what it boils down to: If I don't tell you I'm a fag, you won't beat the crap out of me. I mean, what's so great about that? That's a great philosophy?

When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.

The key is this: When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.

Let's leave his rank, then,—take the man himself:

I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

It was a split [between the way I was saw myself…and the way I was expected to behave] that brought up to date the age-old dualism between body and soul, virgin and whore. (Haskell xiii)

Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked."

The ways she was different from any other woman in my life could not be counted. I didn't want to say she was sweet, because that seemed to negate all the ways she was fierce. I didn't want to say she was generous, because it would deny the ways she was selfish. I'd never had a woman in my life show me so much of herself.

My name is Ty. Short for Wyatt. Wyatt Svenson. People just always call me Ty.

The boys wore jeans, or tracksuits with big ticks on them as if their clothing had been marked by a teacher who valued, above all else, conformity.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

But Mariana was wrong. You couldn't die. You had to go on. When you were born, you were given a trust of individuality that you were bound to preserve. It was precious. The things that happened in your life, however closely connected with other people, developed and strengthened that individuality. You became a person.

Mary could be as sullen or rebellious as anyone on occasion, but she never achieved the glorious abandon with which Angela simply went her own way, uncaring.

Here you will never learn anything just because girls do it. But it's a pity not to do things just because girls do them. Work must be done for its own sake.

He offered her the world. She said she had her own.

We loved our opposites so that we could free ourselves from our selves.

There was a time you when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember... You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

There is no possible fight for someone deprived of an identity, no internal motivation for fighting, since, although I can fight only with others, first I fight for myself.

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