“I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.” IgnoranceIndividualityCommonness Book:The Merro Tree Source: The Merro Tree
“There is a constitution that some have, and I had it---to which everything foreign is wondrous, and all that is domestic, tiresome.” WonderPersonalityBoredomNoveltyRestlessnessEnnuiCommonnessTriteness Book:Census Source: Census
“He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word.” Commonness Author:Kurt Vonnegut