Quotes About Nonconformity

The first week I was here, a girl got canned for humming an Erasure song while she was churning butter. It's like, yeah, Erasure is historic, but not historic enough.

I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo. Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?

Sticking feathers up your butt," Tyler says, does not make you a chicken.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, someplace to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. Not just a story that goes and then, and then, and then, and then until you die.

Normal deÄŸilim ama gay de deÄŸilim. Biseksüel deÄŸilim. Etiketlerin d???nda bir ÅŸey istiyorum. tüm hayat?m?n tek bir kelimeyle anlat?labilmesini istemiyorum. Bir hikayeden ibaret olmas?n?. Bilinmeyen bir ÅŸey bulmak istiyorum, haritada olmayan bir yer gibi. Gerçek bir mecara istiyorum.

sticking feathers up your butt,Tyler says,does not make you a chicken

Propriety can go dunk its head in an unflushed toilet.

Normal? What's normal? To only do what the masses do? And what is the benefit of that? Where is the problem in adopting a custom that is 'abnormal' if it has no negative effect on the world at large?

Minds weren't pictures at an exhibition, all numbered, and hung in order of influence, one marked Cunning, the next, Impressionable. They were scrawls; they were sprawling splashes of graffiti, unpredictable, unconfinable.

Our findings point more and more to the conclusion that the Outsider is not a freak, but is only more sensitive than the 'sanguine and healthy-minded

The world had whispered its rules to him for his whole life and he refused to listen, hearing instead a higher order.

I will not be famous, great. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly. There was something unusual about him, or something behind him. It might be that he was bookish -- never came to see you without taking up the book on the table (he was now reading, with his bootlaces trailing on the floor)...

Continuerò ad azzardare, a cambiare, ad aprire la mente e gli occhi, rifiutando di lasciarmi incasellare e stereotipare. Ciò che conta è liberare il proprio io: lasciare che trovi le sue dimensioni, che non abbia vincoli.

Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.

insan doÄŸas? gereÄŸi, t?k nefesli, haz?r kravatl? ve iki haftad?r sakal t?ra?? olmayan küçük bir adamdan aÅŸa?? olduÄŸunun söylenmesinden hoÅŸlanm?yor.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

To the Winds, Victor was a problem child insofar as he refused to be one.

how long did I think we were going to live in stuffy cabins, doing filthy things together and never behaving like ordinary people

Libertarian is someone who says, 'you can be as liberal or conservative as you want to be, just don't force others to be like you.

The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you.

My position on what other people think of me is, fuck what other people think.