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The Rebel

«Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.»
«As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.»
«I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.»
«If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.»
«Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.»
«(Pain) removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul»
«If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat»
«Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.»
«A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.»
«Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.»

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