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Autobiography and memoir1 quote
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Comedy1 quote
The Dude abides. — The Dude · 1998Comedy (film)1 quote
The Dude abides. — The Dude · 1998Coming of age story1 quote
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? — Hermann Hesse · 1919Crime comedy1 quote
The Dude abides. — The Dude · 1998Crime comedy (film)1 quote
The Dude abides. — The Dude · 1998Modernist literature1 quote
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning. — James Joyce · 1915Rock music1 quote
I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. — Jimi Hendrix · 1967Tragedy (play)1 quote
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare · 1616