Quotes About Authenticity

The thing was, when you served another, when you lived a role determined by someone else ... you could not go back to that constriction once you found out who you truly were.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core.

He tried out a smile. Widened it. His cheeks felt like they were going to crack. Yeah, okay, so he wasn't exactly Hallmark-card material.

A veces, fingir ser normal era el mejor antídoto contra las cosas raras. El dicho «finge hasta que lo logres» era algo más que simple verborrea psicológica.

Possessions weren't the thing. The car your drove and the house you lived in and the clothes you wore...were nothing but vocabulary. They weren't the true communication that mattered, they weren't the connections that were important.

It was good to be where you belong... And best to do the things you can live with. Even if it killed you in the short run.

Real life went down when and where it did, regardless of whether things were photogenic.

A very wise person once told me . . . lie to anybody you want, just never yourself.

Michael Jordan didn't become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn't become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

I have nothing to do but do what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgments and pray for the light.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed...

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.

That Rollo Greb is the greatest, most wonderful of all. That's what I was trying to tell you - that's what I want to be. I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he has nothing to do but rock back and forth. Man, he's the end! You see, if you go like him all the time you'll finally get it.

I'd rather die than be famous, I want to go live in the desert With long wild hair, eating At my campfire, full of sand

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.