Quotes About Authenticity

Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Just for the record, waking up on drugs with your pubic hair shaved and something plastic stuck in your vagina doesn't necessarily make you a real artist.

It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

I tell everybody, I'm tired of being jerked around. Okay? So let's just not pretend. I don't have fuck for a heart. You people are not going to make me feel anything. You are not going to get to me.

Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.

We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary.

Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Brandy says, Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes. Brandy says, I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.

A salacious lie will always trump a noble truth.

Clothing is dishonesty in its purest form.

Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

Quit try­ing to fix your life. Deal with your one big is­sue.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word.

How she looks is watered-down. How she looks is disappearing. How she looks is erased. Don't stress, she says. This is just me not wearing any makeup.

Give me release. I'm tired of this world of appearances. Pigs that only look fat. Families that look happy. Give me deliverance. From what only looks like generosity. What only looks like love. Flash.

Peter used to say, The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face. You're doomed to being you. This, he says, leaves su free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walking. Which China pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a Diary.

The truth is nobody here is as stupid or evil as I let on. Except me.

The most boring thing in the entire world, Brandy says, is nudity. The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty.

Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life.

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize. My point being, Brandy says, is you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. You're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. It's all out of your hands, Brandy says.

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.