Quotes About Authenticity

Katie assured him that she was professionally nonjudgmental—which was not true; she was the opposite and was revolted by his crimes.

in all honestly

Today, we live in a culture that is less concerned with excellence and more concerned with authenticity. That's why there are more than two hundred reality TV shows.

The self is a mystery. In our efforts to pin it down or make it safe, we dissociate ourselves from our complete experience of whatever it is or is not.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

More than the relaxation it evoked, this feeling in the dining hall hinted at who I might be if I wasn't who I thought I was.

Busy work often looks more like work than real work does

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.

He said, 'are you telling the truth?' I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth.

Io non racconto mai bugie. Mia madre diceva sempre che dipendeva dal fatto che sono una brava persona. Invece non dipende dal fatto che sono una brava persona. È così perché non sono capace di raccontare bugie.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

Her only worry sometimes was that she didn't look different enough, that people mistook her for part of a crowd. She'd see a girl in patterned Doc Martens or with a dyed red pixie cut and wish she had the balls.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can't tell lies.

If he wasn't careful he'd turn into one of those men who cared more about furniture than human beings. He'd end up living with someone else who cared more about furniture than human beings and they'd lead a life which looked perfectly normal from the outside but was, in truth, a kind of living death that left your heart looking like a raisin. Or

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can't tell lies.

It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope no one runs away.

I want my narre to mean me.

a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

The best thing in the world is the truth. You find it out anyway, in the end, or sooner.

If people love you for your soul, your face doesn't matter and you don't have to be perfect.

This extraordinary young woman does not photograph like a model (so many of whom seem unalive, unpleasant, and stupid), because her beauty is not fixed but the result of what she is as she moves and speaks. The life within her is what makes him love her, and he thinks how lucky he is to have met her when both of them are so young.

Parchment and papyrus documents could be easily altered, but paper documents could not.