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“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”

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Virginia C. Andrews

American novelist, known for her family saga novels, whose works are characterized by delicate emotional descriptions and complex family relationships. more

“I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.”

Way Humans Said Hate Dies Force Essentials Breaths Pity Human Life Fearful Far Away Fierce Scorn Vastness Before I Die Love Or Hate

Book:My Philosophical Development

Source: My Philosophical Development

“Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.”

Men Stars Ugly Merit Ducks Mud Deceived Brilliance Footprint Resemblance Firmament Ugly Things

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”

Want Doe Art Skills Passionate What You Want Appeals Heartfelt Heartless Ineptitude Virtuosity

Author:John Barth

“Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!”

Beautiful Imagine Ugly Butterfly

Book:Zettel, 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Zettel, 40th Anniversary Edition

“With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”

Art Impossible Possibility Requirements Improbable

Author:Aristotle

“In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.”

Heart Said Hands Saws My Heart Creatures Naked Bitter Desert Broken Heart Good Friend

Author:Stephen Crane

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

Stories Father Work Laughing Taught Jokes Deny Enterprise Cracks

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.”

Feelings Capacity

Book:Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel

Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel

“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.”

Individuality Privilege Wounds Heal Undermining

Book:An Experiment in Criticism

Source: An Experiment in Criticism

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

Men May Doe Two Today Fall Groups Thirds Slave Officials Scholar Businessman Statesmen Free Man

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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