Edith Sitwell  - Quotes

 I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. 

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Pat Conroy  - Quotes

 About the South:



 

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Bertrand Russell  - Quotes

 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. 

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John Stuart Mill  - Quotes

 In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. 

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