205 quotes found
“Notice how each particle moves.Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.Notice how each wants a different food.Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams s...”
“Where personal experience is concerned, we all speak a different language.”
“they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment....”
“From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring -”
“Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.”
“An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I...”
“It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any...”
“Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.”
“Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.”
“What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, ...”
“Is it really so terrible being around us?"I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake.""The greatest changes in his...”
“Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.”
“Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Soc...”
“Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.”
“A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.”
“Without our individual kinks we would all be flat as boards.”
“Why should we change that which makes us unique?”
“The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.”
“Being different is not a sin, but intolerance is.”
“Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.”
