"Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here."

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Madness Quotes #Variety Quotes #Nonconformity Quotes

“Andrea stared at me. "You're not taking me seriously!" "That's probably because you're not excited enough," Derek said. "You should clench your fists like they do in the movies, shake them, and yell, 'This is bigger than any of us! It goes all the way to the top!”
“Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.”
“When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk.”
“My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.”
“I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality”
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
“It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.”
“When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.”

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