Quotes About Individuality

I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

He became, in that instant, pure topography: his belly a highland, tapering down to a head-hamlet, with two hard-blinking eye-ponds. Four servants rushed to his aid. He waved them off with a smile. Made

I would say to the priest that God made me as I am, that I had no choice, that He must have made me like this for a purpose, that He knows the ultimate reasons for all things and that therefore it must be all to the good that I am as I am, even if we cannot know what that good is. I can say to the priest that if God is the reason for all things, then God is to blame and I should not be condemned.

to believe there's so many dogs that all look the same.' Nancy smiled to herself. Red Dog was everybody's dog now

The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.

It's true,' said Rosie. 'No one is ever only one thing. Inside one person there are so many different people, and quite often they're at war with each other, and sometimes one of them is winning, and sometimes another. We're all so hard to understand, aren't we? I don't even understand myself. It'd be so much easier to be a dog, don't you think? Or one of these donkeys? I just wish so much...

Zaten eninde sonunda her insan?n ba??na gelir bu, sizi s?n?fland?r?rlar.

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.

A name is what a man makes it," I

It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of religious or political belief, and it is a poor sort of man who will permit others to dictate what he may or may not learn.

From Elisha Comes to Red Horse : I leave their politics and religion be. Folks can think the way they want, act the way they please, even to acting the fool. All I ask is they don't make too much noise and don't interfere with other people.

Any time a man comes along and says 'Indians' or 'Mexicans' or 'Englishmen' he's bound to be wrong. Each man is a person unto himself, and you'll find good, bad, and indifferent wherever you go.

If they didn't accept him, the hell with them - he could go his own way.

From Elisha Comes to Red Horse : Now I can't claim to be what you'd call a religious man, yet I've a respect for religion, and when a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety.

Uncommon men are everywhere. So much so that the common man has become uncommon.

the way of men. One fights one's battles alone, not asking mercy nor expecting help.

There was no such thing as human nature, if by that one believed that certain reactions and responses were typical of all men.

Is a man ruled by his own free will, or is he a composite of all his experiences, his education and heredity?

I think that no two men age at the same rate, or learn equal sums from experience. Some

Mere mouthpieces of a party, take away the party & they shrivel & vanish.

Dana had four beautiful eyes. She wore glasses. But her eyes were so beautiful that the glasses only made her prettier. With two eyes she was pretty. With four eyes she was beautiful. With six eyes she would have been even more beautiful. And if she had a hundred eyes, all over her face and her arms and her feet, why, she would have been the most beautiful creature in the world.

I prefer to use the names their parents gave them -- the names that society will recognize them by when they return to become useful and hardworking members of society.

That's the Little Dipper. Hey, Armpit, what sign are you?" "This is my sign," Armpit said, and gave him the finger.