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Quotes About Individuality

While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both … While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
~ Robert Browning
All lives are interesting – how interesting depends on the telling
~ Robert Christgau
They tell you to do your thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your own thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. It's a laugh, Goober, a fake. Don't disturb the universe, Goober, no matter what the posters say.
~ Robert Cormier
They tell you to do your thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. It's a laugh, a fake. Don't disturb the universe, no matter what the posters say.
~ Robert Cormier
he had never felt left out: it was his choice. To be a witness, to observe, to let the events be recorded within himself on some personal film in some secret compartment no one knew about, except him.
~ Robert Cormier
They tell you to do your thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.
~ Robert Cormier
Pike stood six-one and weighed one ninety-five, all ropy muscles and crimson arrows inked on his delts. He wore a sleeveless gray sweatshirt, sun-faded jeans, and running shoes. Dark glasses masked his eyes. No
~ Robert Crais
nostrils flickered and twitched. Her breathing pattern changed when she sniffed for a scent. Sniffing wasn't breathing. The air she drew for sniffing did not enter her lungs. Sniffs were small sips she took in groups called trains. A train could be from three to seven sniffs, and Maggie always sniffed in threes. Sniff-sniff-sniff, pause, sniff-sniff-sniff. Budress' dog, Obi, sniffed in trains of five. Always five. No one knew why, but each dog was different. Scott
~ Robert Crais
I don't get the new shoe business." "You walk around, step on stuff, the heel gets nicked, the sole picks up dings and cuts. A pattern develops, right? It's called a Schallamach pattern. And since no two people walk exactly alike, the Schallamach on your shoe is unique to you.
~ Robert Crais
We're not so different." The girl burst out laughing. "Ohmigod! Oh my God—dude! Maybe you're high!" Pike put the car in gear, but kept his foot on the brake. Their sameness seemed obvious. "You want to be seen; me, I want to be invisible. It's all the same." The girl stared at him, then straightened herself the way he had straightened himself. She said, "An idealist.
~ Robert Crais
Después de todo, no se puede contentar a todo el mundo.
~ Robert Fisher
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
~ Robert Frost
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
~ Robert Frost
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
~ Robert Frost
So I took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
~ Robert Frost
I could say Elves to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself.
~ Robert Frost
I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost
But no, I was out for stars; I would not come in. I meant not even if asked; And I hadn't been.
~ Robert Frost
We love the things we love for what they are
~ Robert Frost
I'm glad of any political freedom they give me, but what I'm interested in is not political freedom. I'm interested in the liberties I take.
~ Robert Frost
I may as well confess myself the author Of several books against the world in general.
~ Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by
~ Robert Frost
As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.
~ Robert Fulghum