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  1. Chuck Palahniuk _ Invisible Monsters Remix

    The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill
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  2. Libba Bray _ A Great and Terrible Beauty

    I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
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  3. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people," Maria said finally.
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  4. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
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  5. Sarah Vowell _ Assassination Vacation

    A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher complained that the community did not foster "genius or special talent," Noyes was delighted, replying, "We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo." You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
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  6. Sarah Vowell _ Take the Cannoli

    We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.
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  7. John Berger _ Confabulations

    I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars.
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  8. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.
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  9. Douglas Coupland _ Generation A

    Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.
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  10. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    If he {Teddy Roosevelt} lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
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  11. Frank Herbert _ Children of Dune

    To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
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  12. Garry Fitchett _ Life Is a Bicycle: A Living

    Exercising your talents, passion, sense of judgment, and making a difference while doing something you love is the essence of life."
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