Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.
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Alan Watts
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Ian Mcewan
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but thesimplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man ifhe is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow ofdoubt, what is laid before him.
Leo Tolstoy