Quotes About Uniqueness

The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.

The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.

You are not me, those eyes say. You never were, you never will be.

We learn many things, from many people as opposed to your world, where you're taught all the same things, by the same people.

Because Dirk is different. Dirk is missing the spark. Which means there's nothing holding him together but stitches.

Le beau est toujours bizarre

mujeres. Porque el señor G. no solo conoce el caballo en general, sino que también se empeña con éxito en expresar la belleza individual de cada caballo. En

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. — Charles Baudelaire

for me obedience to another is the decay of self. for though every being is similar each being is different and to herd our differences under one law degrades each self.

A cat is only itself.

Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

People lack originality.

You're all there, she said. What do you mean? I mean, I never met a man like you. Oh, yeah? The others are only ten percent there or twenty percent, you're all there, all of you is very there, it's so different. I don't know anything about it. You're a hooker, you can hook women.

I am not like other people other people are like other people. they are all alike: joining grouping huddling they are both gleeful and content and i am burning in hell. my heart is a thousand years old i am not like other people.

Style is the answer to everything.

I can sit down and vomit on the keys but it's my vomit. it's better than sitting in a room with 3 or 4 people and their pianos. this is my piano and it is better than theirs.

You realize when you're plucked out of the mainstream that it doesn't need you or anybody else.

And I mean you and nobody but you.

The best of you I like more than you think. the others don't count except that they have fingers and heads and some of them eyes and most of them legs and all of them good and bad dreams and a way to go.

Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.

Jei tu esi vienintelis, matantis vaizdinius, tave vadina šventuoju arba pamišeliu.

YOUR ASSHOLE, MY ASSHOLE, THE WORLD IS FULL OF BILLIONS OF ASSHOLES. THE PRESIDENT HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE CARWASH BOY HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE JUDGE AND THE MURDERER HAVE ASSHOLES

And while of course everyone, even the most wrecked and destitute among us, has a unique personal history, the problematic nature of trying to gather information about people who've severed too many basic ties is this—that in a sense we truly have history only insofar as it's shared, and too much uniqueness really leads away from individuality to anonymity, the great sea of the forgotten.

The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable; it seems to be a little world within itself.