Quotes About Authenticity

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

Never think you speak for all of yourself.

Not everyone strives to be fashionable. I don't, and I believe I succeed.

Ce n'est qu'après de longues années d'épreuves et d'expériences extraordinaires, que Dostoïevski cet influence en art tragique et authentique tempéré par la vie.

The greatest communication is usually how we are rather than what we say.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

I have become more aware of (1) how true emotions can feel during crucial moments, and (2) how false they really are.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

Not every musician should be obligated to reassure us that we are not zombies.

only a lunatic would fail to distinguish between himself and his representative self. This banal distinction may be most obvious in the workplace, where invariably one must avail oneself of an even-tempered, abnormally industrious dummy stand-in who, precisely because it is a dummy, makes life easier for all the others, who are themselves present, which is to say, represented, by dummies of their own.

Oggi tutti parlano la stessa, falsa lingua, e tutte le cose hanno le stesse ma false denominazioni.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

affects you, and the way you're treated." Nightheart stared at her. It might mean something to other cats, but he wanted to be respected for being himself.

You can't tell a cat what his heart should feel.

Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone.

People say to me, 'How do I know if a word is real?' You know, anybody who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

The simulation had now become indistinguishable from real life.

you only know what I want you to know, you only see what I want you to see."... Wade: " I don't care! I am in love with your mind, with the person you are. I couldn't care about the packaging.

as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.