{"quotes":[{"text":"One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.","author":"Winston Groom","tags":["ants","convention","find","humor","humorous","humour","humourous","insect","meeting"],"id":49078,"author_id":"Winston+Groom"},{"text":"Often I didn’t think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.","author":"Jackie Haze","tags":["convention","culture","free-spirit","life","society","status-quo","system","unconventional"],"id":94363,"author_id":"Jackie+Haze"},{"text":"Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["convention","power"],"id":104812,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["autograph","convention","fame","science-fiction","self-referential"],"id":127344,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"Being classy is my teenage rebellion.","author":"Rebecca McKinsey","tags":["class","convention","fashion","manners","rebellion","teenagers"],"id":139232,"author_id":"Rebecca+McKinsey"},{"text":"The times on the open road with all the unknown ahead were the times I was happiest and most secure, with people who knew our core and lived solely for the purpose of unmediated experiences and love, from which purpose itself is born. Not the distant idea of life, love and purpose dirtied by constructs.","author":"Jackie Haze","tags":["convention","core","experience","free-spirit","freedom","life","life-and-living","love","nomad","open-road","purpose","status-quo","travel","unconventional","vagabond","values"],"id":173589,"author_id":"Jackie+Haze"},{"text":"To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["challenge","convention","insanity","possessed","religion"],"id":197794,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty—the world of the elderly—thrown up in such black outline upon what we are; upon the reality; the moors and Byron; the sea and the lighthouse; the sheep’s jaw with the yellow teeth in it; upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—“I am what I am, and intend to be it,” for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. The Plumers will try to prevent him from making it. Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["authenticity","convention","growing","struggle"],"id":211220,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["convention","employee","employer","employment","self-employment","slavery","working-hours"],"id":212180,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["collectivism","convention","society"],"id":233070,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}