Quotes About Authenticity

If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window.

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.

Rant Casey no era malvado. Más bien parecía que estuviera intentando encontrar algo real en el mundo. Hoy día los niños no crecen conectados a nada, se pasan el tiempo enchufados y viviendo vidas que otra gente ha alucinado para ellos. Aventuras de segunda mano. Creo que Rant quería que todo el mundo experimentara por lo menos una aventura de verdad. En tanto que comunidad, algo que uniera a la gente.

I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo. Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?

It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

Sticking feathers up your butt," Tyler says, does not make you a chicken.

What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.

No matter what world you create you're always dealing with your own shit. Same shit, different mask.

This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.

You can't fool people into loving you.

Hayati dogru duzgun yasamak icin egitilmisiz biz. Hata yapmamak icin. Ne kadar buyuk bir hata yaparsam, o kadar kurtulma ve gercek bir hayat yasama sansim olacagini fark ettim.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, someplace to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. Not just a story that goes and then, and then, and then, and then until you die.

did you really mean it?

Kendimi gittikçe kendimin berbat bir taklidi haline geliyormuÅŸum gibi hissediyorum

Normal deÄŸilim ama gay de deÄŸilim. Biseksüel deÄŸilim. Etiketlerin d???nda bir ÅŸey istiyorum. tüm hayat?m?n tek bir kelimeyle anlat?labilmesini istemiyorum. Bir hikayeden ibaret olmas?n?. Bilinmeyen bir ÅŸey bulmak istiyorum, haritada olmayan bir yer gibi. Gerçek bir mecara istiyorum.

You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

ÄŒistÄ› pro úplnost, jen to, že se probudíte nadopovaná, s vyholeným ohanbím a s n??ím umÄ›lohmotným zastr?eným do pochvy, z vás jeÅ¡tÄ› neudÄ›lá skute?nou umÄ›lkyni.

I know, I know, in that totally archetypal Tom Sawyer scenario it's supposed to be way satisfying to attend your own funeral and witness how everyone secretly loved and adored you, but the sad truth is that most people are just as fakey-fake to you after you're dead as when you're alive.

Don't pretend for a moment that writing as a different person is evading reality. If anything it allows you a greater freedom to explore parts of yourself you wouldn't dare consciously examine.

No medium is fragile if it carries the truth.

Pak zapne televizi, b?ží tam nÄ›jaký seriál, znáte to, skute?ní lidé, co pÃ…â"¢edstírají, že jsou faleÅ¡ní lidé s vymyÅ¡lenými problémy, a na to se dívají skute?ní lidé, co zapomenou na své skute?né problémy.

I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say. It's nothing anymore to have a beautiful stock body. You see those cars that are completely stock cherry, right out of the dealer show room in 1955, I always think, what a waste.