Quotes About Nonconformity

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along; he must offer some little opposition.

Contra mundum? Contra mundum.

Amory smiled discreetly...'But beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit--the Rousseau, the Tolstoi, the Samuel Butler, the Amory Blaine-

I know I'm not a regular fellow, yet I loathe anybody else that isn't.

Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.

Ida had always been different. At school, when all the kids used to play church, and one would be the preacher, another the preacher's wife, a deacon, and the choir leader, and some would be the parishioners who had come to the church, Ida said she wanted to be God, because she was the only one who knew how to do it. Of

As the doctor said, When a fifty-eight-year-old man goes downtown dressed up in a Dale Evans cowgirl outfit, complete with a skirt with fringe, it's time...

Später werden ihr die Leute sagen, sie soll nicht mit Zigeunern spielen, so wie sie ihr sagen, sie solle nicht alleine trampen, oder sich das Gesicht von einem Hund ablecken lassen, aber sie achtet sowieso nicht besonders darauf, was ihr die Leute sagen.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.

If I were someone else, I'd go along with you all. But since I'm what I am, lay off! Go to hell without me, Or let me go there by myself! Why do we have to go together?

M? întind cât sunt eu de lung în iarba p?mântului Åži uit tot ce alÅ£ii m-au înv??at. Înv???tura nu mi-a Å£inut niciodat? nici de cald,nici de frig. Cele despre care mi s-a spus c? exist? nu au modificat vreodat? forma care sunt. Ceea ce am fost înv??at s? v?d nu a atins niciodat? ochii mei.

To dodge the rules and say useless things sums up the essentially modern attitude.

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.

I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration.

I am fascinated by that person who is trying to live authentically, but they are on the outside of society, so how do they manage in the world around them?

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

No one ever said 'no' to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. No one ever said, 'You can't be a fashion designer.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't take tap-dancing lessons.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't have long hair.'

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I'm against fashionable thinking.

I'm not fashionable.

I don't really follow any fashions. I just wear what I want to wear each day. I don't care if they clash or not.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

I don't really embrace femininity.