There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
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When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
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If at first you don't succeed, your are running sbout average.
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On average, women are better liars than men. But the best liars are men, because politicians are still predominantly men.?
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But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
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I don't think there's too much normal out there anymore. Though there's still plenty of average to go around.
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