Weird Quotes
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“Weird is the new cool. If someone thinks your weird then they don't know how it is to be cool.”
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“Slip me a piece of paper with 'Yes or No' on it, and I'll be the one to circle 'or' as my answer.”
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“Through even perhaps no one's making but their own, there are people out there who don't at all feel themselves designed for other people because they're seldom understood; howbeit not in some rebellious, angsty way - just really, gravely mistaken.”
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“Bertrand Russell famously said: “It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.” [but] Russell’s maxim is the luxury of a technologically advanced society with science, history, journalism, and their infrastructure of truth-seeking, including archival records, digital datasets, high-tech instruments, and communities of editing, fact-checking, and peer review. We children of the Enlightenment embrace the radical creed of universal realism: we hold that all our beliefs should fall within the reality mindset. We care about whether our creation story, our founding legends, our theories of invisible nutrients and germs and forces, our conceptions of the powerful, our suspicions about our enemies, are true or false. That’s because we have the tools to get answers to these questions, or at least to assign them warranted degrees of credence. And we have a technocratic state that should, in theory, put these beliefs into practice.
But as desirable as that creed is, it is not the natural human way of believing. In granting an imperialistic mandate to the reality mindset to conquer the universe of belief and push mythology to the margins, we are the weird ones—or, as evolutionary social scientists like to say, the WEIRD ones: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. At least, the highly educated among us are, in our best moments. The human mind is adapted to understanding remote spheres of existence through a mythology mindset. It’s not because we descended from Pleistocene hunter-gatherers specifically, but because we descended from people who could not or did not sign on to the Enlightenment ideal of universal realism. Submitting all of one’s beliefs to the trials of reason and evidence is an unnatural skill, like literacy and numeracy, and must be instilled and cultivated.”
― Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
But as desirable as that creed is, it is not the natural human way of believing. In granting an imperialistic mandate to the reality mindset to conquer the universe of belief and push mythology to the margins, we are the weird ones—or, as evolutionary social scientists like to say, the WEIRD ones: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. At least, the highly educated among us are, in our best moments. The human mind is adapted to understanding remote spheres of existence through a mythology mindset. It’s not because we descended from Pleistocene hunter-gatherers specifically, but because we descended from people who could not or did not sign on to the Enlightenment ideal of universal realism. Submitting all of one’s beliefs to the trials of reason and evidence is an unnatural skill, like literacy and numeracy, and must be instilled and cultivated.”
― Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
“If everything seems strange to you when you look around, then there must be something weird about you! If nothing looks strange to you when you look around, then there must be something weird about you again!”
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“Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqueletos que me habían atormentado. Las calaveras de los abedules, las de nuestros padres y ahora la de tía Anita.”
― Tierra fresca de su tumba
― Tierra fresca de su tumba
“To children everywhere; let your dreams take you wherever you want to go.”
― Strange Trips and Weird Adventures
― Strange Trips and Weird Adventures
“Campers screamed when they swam and played and sometimes simply for the sake of screaming.”
― The Box in the Woods
― The Box in the Woods
“The electric saw worked like a charm and, a few non-Bananagrammatical but highly Rabbinical words and a miniature parasol later, I was a newly-married man.”
― Stern Plastic Owl
― Stern Plastic Owl
“Stalin's son laid down his life for shit. But a death for shit is not a senseless death.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“If we make a comment about a person who seems weird to us without knowing what she has experienced in her life, this will be the real weirdness.”
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“Dejó de cantar y, en silencio, hizo lo que tenía que hacer para darles vida. Esta vez usó más sangre. Casi se desmaya por la cantidad que exprimió de sus venas, pero era necesario. Ahora, la cicatriz en sus cuellos tomó la forma de una estrella. Finalmente, los niños abrieron los ojos. Afuera se escuchó un trueno. Comenzó a llover.”
― Nadie encontrará mis huesos
― Nadie encontrará mis huesos
“In the dictionary, the words "different" and "unique" are not defined as wrong.
Weird people are my people.”
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Weird people are my people.”
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“The idea of putting raisins in cookies originated with my microscope. 'Chocolate chips? Nope! I'm using dehydrated grapes instead.”
― I Think My Microscope Is Possessed By The Devil
― I Think My Microscope Is Possessed By The Devil
“My microscope got a waitress fired because she referred to a tomato as a vegetable. 'It's a fruit! Learn your taxonomy, bitch!”
― I Think My Microscope Is Possessed By The Devil
― I Think My Microscope Is Possessed By The Devil
“When Mary Lee awoke in the morning, she was in a vanilla-plain room, under crispy sheets, with white waffled blankets. Next to her bed was its identical twin. White and waffled. Waiting.”
― Twins
― Twins
“He gave it one last tightening tug and uttered a firm, “Stay.”
“Woof,” I replied.”
― Demons at Deadnight
“Woof,” I replied.”
― Demons at Deadnight
“As I went about my hair care routine, Logan whacked Jayden on the shoulder. “It’s bad enough you do it to us. You can’t do it to girls.”
Apparently, Jayden pulled his “surprise” bathroom visits on all the guys. Which was supposed to make me feel better. It didn’t.”
― Drop Dead Demons
Apparently, Jayden pulled his “surprise” bathroom visits on all the guys. Which was supposed to make me feel better. It didn’t.”
― Drop Dead Demons
“Then he looked at Marrill with a frown of concern. “By chance have you felt the urge to repeat everything people say to you, backward?” Yesterday she’d have thought it was the oddest question she’d ever been asked. Now she wasn’t so sure. “No?”
― The Map to Everywhere
― The Map to Everywhere
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