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Quotes About Uniqueness

everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.
~ Kate Jacobs
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
~ Katherine Dunn
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
~ Katherine Dunn
You must have wished a million times to be normal." "No." "No?" "I've wished I had two heads. Or that I was invisible. I've wished for a fish's tail instead of legs. I've wished to be more special." "Not normal?" "Never.
~ Katherine Dunn
Be yourself, it's a tough act to follow.
~ Katherine Hepburn
I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.
~ Fritz Scholder
If I was the only one I wouldn't be littler or bigger, would I? I'd be just me, wouldn't I?
~ Fynn
To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Exemplarele "f?r? de pereche" ale omenirii, asemni lui Moise, Siddartha, Confucius, Socrate sau Isus, care f?cuser? din comandamentul "F? ca mine!" calea de urmat, erau, prin chiar natura lor excep?ional?, neimitabile. Toate preceptele lor au ridicat prea sus ?tacheta de om.
~ Gabriel Liiceanu
In a world of planar surfaces, someone became 3D
~ Gabrielle Zevin
His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
then she said, annoyed, "You get that this is a story about you, right? That's why you lost your mind at a dog park. You're Tuesday. You're the incredibly special dog that no one can classify.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
No somos exactamente novelas. No somos exactamente relatos cortos. Al final somos obras completas.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
No one else seems as real as he does.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We are not quite novels...in the end we are collected works.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.
~ Gail Carson Levine
We are the only ones with our own set of thoughts and bundle of feelings. Another person can taste them, through shared experience or conversation, but no other person can ever really digest them.
~ Gail Sheehy
Don't ever think that just because you do things differently, you're wrong.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Don't ever think that just because you do things differently, you're wrong.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Geeky people often have. . . . a mind with its own heartbeat.
~ Garret Freymann-Weyr
Not that there's anything wrong with geeky," Link says before Dad has a chance to. Geeky is one of Dad's favorite words, and I listen with glee to my brother's imitation of our father: "Geeky people often have that which is most valuable in this life." Link pauses here for effect, so that James and I can join in, shouting Dad's favorite phrase, "A mind with its own heartbeat.
~ Garret Freymann-Weyr
I've always felt almost human. I've always known that there's something about me that's different than other dogs. Sure, I'm stuffed into a dog's body, but that's just the shell. It's what's inside that's important. The soul. And my soul is very human.
~ Garth Stein
In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.
~ Gary D. Schmidt