Quotes About Authenticity

It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

Standing for something isn't just about writing it down. It's about believing it and living it.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Can I ask why? Why what? Why you're something you're not? We're all something we're not, he said. Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be and there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.

The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect.

We are all actors,' said Connie. 'Our true feelings and desires hidden behind masks carved from the trammels of accepted social norms. Wouldn't you say so?

Cuando estalló el caso Marco, mucha gente dedujo que, dado que Marco había mentido sobre su estancia en el campo de Flossenbürg, había mentido sobre todo lo demás. Es una deducción errónea, que delata una ignorancia espectacular sobre la naturaleza de las buenas mentiras y los buenos mentirosos: los buenos mentirosos no sólo trafican con mentiras, sino también con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequeñas verdades;

empecé a decirme que una buena mentira no es una mentira pura, exenta, que una mentira pura es una mentira inverosímil, que, para que sea verosímil, una mentira tiene que construirse en parte con verdades, y

Nunca he entendido por qué tengo que leer sobre cosas que no han pasado cuando puedo leer sobre cosas que pasan de verdad. La poesía es eso, lo que pasa de verdad.

los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede;

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

One final note from the world of fiction: You'll be more believable if you're not perfect. A useful flaw in your character makes you more interesting and gives you a hook so that you penetrate deeply into the minds of your marketplace. The marketplace then sees you as human and real. By

When you ask how they are doing, they usually will say, "Great. Never better," which will make you feel like crap. That's just their game face; they are not doing any better than you are. You are the only person you need to please. If you stick with your plan, you will achieve success.

the purest form of public relations is human relations.

So the best way to gain the love and respect of a cat is to practice genuine

asked. "They lie." "Ah. Frauds.

Why do we love each other? Because we are what we are, and we're both okay with it.

Pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the true and the false, the real and the imaginary.

When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

Ciddi olmamak ve ciddi görünmek gerekiyor. Ya da ciddi gibi görünmeden ciddi olmak. Ciddi gibi görünmekle ciddi olmay? birleÅŸtirenler deÄŸersiz kiÅŸilerdir.

Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are factitious, as their name suggests.

Gizlemek (dissimuler), sahip olunan ÅŸeye sahip deÄŸilmiÅŸ gibi yapmak; simüle etmek ise sahip olunmayan ÅŸeye sahipmiÅŸ gibi yapmakt?r.

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