205 quotes found
“Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.”
“But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the lif...”
“She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her ...”
“He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.”
“I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things Ive thought and found all on my own on my own, not through you.”
“Believe it or not, some of us have piercings and tattoos and dye our hair because we think it looks pretty, not for any deep sociological reason. This isn't an act of protest against cultural or so...”
“A man is known by the books he reads.”
“I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.”
“and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ownlives.”
“There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is ...”
“I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.”
“And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are the enemies, and they most afflict the disciples who the most generously serve them. They insinuate...”
“Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and her brother giggled and her mother said calmly, 'She wants her ...”
“It's strange how easily we assume that others must be going in the same direction as us.”
“There is another more psychological obstacle to the full development of love in the modern world, and that is the fear that many people feel of not preserving their individuality in tact. This is a...”
“Why--?" he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, "when they're so lovely--"She too looked at the girl, who was fastening a flower that had come undone in the front of her frock. She smile...”
“If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.”
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”
“Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!”
“Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”
