Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

The most interesting hipsters are ones who stop being hipsters.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

My whole life is a contradiction on purpose - to make you think. I think people have forgetten how to have their own opinions. They're always waiting for someone to tell them what to do and what to wear - it's so boring.

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.