Quotes About Authenticity

We find truth inside, or not at all.

This next part,' Sanders said quietly, 'you won't believe.' 'Probably not,' I said. 'You won't. And you know why?' He gave me a long, tired smile. 'Because it happened. Because every word is absolutely dead-on true.

I invested them with a bogus nobility. To a suburban kid they seemed so special, enduring, wild and stiff-necked, in amongst the ancient rocks and gnarled trees, and while it was true enough they carried their secret places in their bodies and in their language, many simply wore their ordinary, dreary undigested pasts like rain-sodden greatcoats and lived like cripples.

You die when you can't be real, Dolly thought. When you can't see who you are and when you cannot see what it.

You die when you can't be real, Dolly thought. When you can't see who you are and when you cannot see what is.

The theology you live out is much more important to your daily life than the theology you claim to believe.

One spoke to him in person, or one did not speak to him at all.

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

Most of our desires are clichés, right? Ready to wear, one size fits all. I doubt if it's even possible to have an original desire anymore.

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

The only people Ryan needed to impress were those who knew him; he cared little for the rest.

It's a leadership function. They taught me that at Quantico. The troops have to see you doing the job. They have to know you're there for them." And I have to be sure that it's all real, that I actually am the President.

It's going to be hard writing for you. I can't dip into the usual well. I have to learn to write the way I used to like to write, not the way I'm paid to write

Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

I'm tired of all this. What ever happened to honesty, Arnie? What ever happened to telling the goddamned truth? It's all a fucking game here, and the object of the game isn't to do the right thing, the object of the game is to stay here. It's not supposed to be that way!

Things were going well. Work here was hard, but there was nothing in the way of Mickey Mouse bullshit.

A face is a kind of a mask anyway, when you think about it, he said. Rudd took a drink and set the glass down. You should never ask Pierre anything. You don't make your face, said Pierre. It's given to you. You might think it represents your true self, but why would it? Half the time you make an expression and think, Oh, this is my whatever expression, and nobody even knows what you're thinking.

You must find out who you are and proceed on the basis of that knowledge.

This is possibly what drove Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain to early graves. They could not handle being cogs. They could not handle monetizing their content. That was not the reason they become bohemian singers.

Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical.

a regimen of hardship and humiliation that at least offered you the dignity of feeling like your existence bore some sort of relationship to reality, that you were no longer engaged in a game of make-believe that would consume the rest of your

You feel what you fucking feel. You don't have to apologize to anyone.

No one knows what love is, he told me. If someone says they do, they're full of shit.

Rarely is the best New Orleans music found in a concert hall where the audience sits separated from the performers by a proscenium