“His manners are somewhat blunt and odd, and he is altogether out of the common road, without having chosen a better path.” — Frances Burney, A learned man on Evelina
Tag: iconoclast
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“Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.” — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook
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“When you’re invisible, no one can see that you’re different.” — Charles de Lint, Pal o’ Mine
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“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
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“There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.” — Malcolm Muggeridge, Muggeridge Through the Microphone