#freaks

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#everybody #everywhere #freaks #fun #get

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#chicken #family #first-sentence #freaks #family

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#class #freaks #middle-class #poets #family

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other. ↗

— James Patterson

#friendship #trufaxx #weird #friendship

I'm proud to be a freak of nature. ↗

— Robin Brande

#nature #nature

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all. ↗

— John Hughes

#freaks #normalcy #bizarre

A perfect, enduring friendship between a couple of freaks ↗

— Stephanie Rowe

#friendship #friendship

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us. ↗

— Gene Ween

#freaks #i #i think #intelligent #intelligent people

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#experience

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us. ↗

— Steve Almond

#freaks #america