"Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider."

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Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

Louise J. Kaplan

#Children Quotes #Individuality Quotes #Deviance Quotes

“The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.”
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.”
“In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.”
“The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.96, iUniverse
“The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.”
“The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!”
“Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.”

Source : "To Myra". line 21,
“When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.”

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