Quotes About Nonconformity

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Only the autodidacts are free. And not just in school matters—those who decommoditize, detouristify their lives.

Options like dispersion of outcomes and don't care about the average too much.

A nerd is simply someone who thinks exceedingly inside the box.

didn't care what my parents (and grandfather) thought of me.

Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.

He did not even bother to have a desk, let alone an office.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking. You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.

the highest form of virtue is unpopular.

The world's law was no law for her mind

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

I've had enough of organizations for a while, no matter how good the cause. I prefer being a free-agent rabble-rouser. Dan

They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.

Sie ist ein Kind der Sixties, blind der Masse zu folgen war nie ihre Sache. Stattdessen versucht sie, sich die nonkonformen Fragen der Welt zu stellen, weil konforme Fragen nur zu konformen Antworten führen.

These people were caricatures of themselves, he thought. They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.

Life would be so much easier without people telling us what we're supposed to feel—what we're supposed to do. Life would be so much easier if everyone left us alone.

Habría que añadir dos derechos a la lista de derechos del hombre: El derecho al desorden y el derecho a marcharse.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I'll show you an exceptional man. show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.