Quotes About Uniqueness

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited...

No army had ever fragmented itself like that before, but ender was not planning to do anything that had been done before, either.

I never really had anybody who followed me. Never wanted them. That's the thing, I guess, that set me apart from the rest of the Jeesh—I was the only one who didn't wish I were Ender.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself

Genius is lonely.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

His subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams.

You might think that fingerprints and numbers give you a distinct identity. But soon there will be no identity so distinct as simply to have none.

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it.

God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody did he.

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

Men liked to claim how different they were, yet they were all so alike.

There's no bullshit more self-serving than the idea that you're a precious snowflake, irreplaceable and deserving to be treated like a thoroughbred, when there are ten more just like you who'd do your job every bit as well.

I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot neatly into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.

People are complicated, she continued, and the ones who aren't are boring. Then maybe I'm boring. We looked at each other, and in a genuinely sad voice, she said, Maybe you are.