Quotes About Authenticity

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

You know, few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim that they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

Victoria glares at him. 'It doesn't mean anything if you don't mean it.' Zach smiles. 'My dear, I never mean it.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

There is nothing more boring than the truth.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

That aura brought his works on Eurasianism massive popularity at a time when there was a hunger for dissident literature, and when any suppressed works automatically gained a reputation for authenticity and truth. He

Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl. (Les huîtres qui parlent n'ont pas de perle)

We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.

He had used the word [humbug] in its Pickwickian sense.

There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood, and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes.

You are to be in all things regulated and governed,' said the gentleman, 'by fact.

A person is never known till a person is proved.

Now, what I want is Facts.

Why, then, you are not to see anywhere, what you don't see in fact; you are not to have anywhere, what you don't have in fact. What is called Taste, is only another name for Fact.

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