Quotes About Authenticity

First feelings are always the most natural.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

Lorena liked it. "I'd say 'awesome,' but we're not supposed to," she said. "Not me," said Sam. "Now that I know how real butter is made, I'll never eat it again." "Don't worry," said Amy, "this is not the same as what you buy in the store." "I think it's better because we made it ourselves," said Allison.

So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

For all your talk, you don't know the first thing about love." Tears spilled over her lashes and rolled down her cheeks. She slipped the chain that held his Super Bowl ring over her head and pressed it into his palm. "I love you, Bobby Tom, and I'll love you till the day I die. But I've never been for sale. I was a free offering all along.

She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she'd never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that he'd put her life in order. What she felt for Bram was messy, honest, and soul-deep. He felt like…part of her, the best and the worst. Like someone she wanted to struggle through life with; share triumphs and catastrophes; share holidays, birthdays, every days

Cut the crap and tell me what color panties you're wearing.

You don't live life. You act it.

It seems like such a waste of time to expend all that energy trying to convince the world you're better than everyone else. I can't understand it." ''Of course you can't. You like nothing better than to point out all your character flaws to everyone who'll listen." She must have found his exasperation amusing because she smiled. "They'll discover those flaws for themselves if they're around me long enough. I just save them the effort.

Has creado esta personalidad alternativa, una mujer tan dura que no le importa la opinión de los demás. Tan dura que se enorgullece de proclamar sus defectos a los cuatro vientos, sólo que estos defectos (no te lo pierdas, ésta es tu auténtica genialidad), estas taras que exhibes a la vista pública, nada tienen que ver con tu verdadera personalidad.

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

A veces un muro no es más que un muro, Sugar Beth. En tu caso, sin embargo, la erección de barreras es una ocupación preocupante. No vives la vida, sólo finges vivirla.

Meséljen magáról, Hód. - Blue vagyok. - Drágám, ha ilyen rossz ízlésem lenne a férfiak terén, én sem lennék boldog. - A nevem Blue. Blue Bailey. - Álnévnek t?nik. - Anyám aznap egy kicsit depis volt, amikor kitöltötte a születési anyakönyvi kivonatomat.

Love that has to be earned on the golf course, or anyplace else, for that matter, isn't worth it. Love has to be a free gift or it doesn't have any value at all.

No puedo resistirme a ti —dijo Alex con suavidad—. ¿Lo sabes, no? Y ya me he cansado de fingir lo contrario —adoptó una expresión de profunda preocupación—. Pero no te amo, Daisy, y no puedes hacerte una idea de cuánto lo siento, porque si tuviera que amar a alguien, sería a ti.

Through trial, I've learned to be myself, and strive not to please man but to please God.

IN THE DARKROOM

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!

The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.