Marmee March to Jo, in Ch. 8 : Jo Meets Apollyon
Little Women (1868)
Context: You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it. … I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. … I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”
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Variant: Well I tried my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them
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“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.”
L'originalité consiste à essayer de faire comme tout le monde sans y parvenir.
As quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech http://books.google.com/books?id=QXtJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22L'originalit%C3%A9+consiste+%C3%A0+essayer+de+faire+comme+tout+le+monde+sans+y+parvenir%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage to the Académie Française (20 October 1955)
“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.”
Raymond Radiguet, who was quoted by Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française (October 1955)
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