Quotes About Authenticity

Sartre's existentialism, where it essentially means having the chutzpah to do what it takes so that you may suit yourself—not quite the same thing as being true to yourself.)

Asking you to play someone you're not is like asking King Kong to play the Moonlight Sonata.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Lose it for yourself, if you want to, but not for anyone else.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Every underground scene dies a long slow death as the tourists close in, until nothing's left but posers ogling each other over the bleached remains. If

Nigga couldn't tell the truth if there was a gun to his head.

The fiction will seek the real.

But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion,Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.

As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Trudno zadowoli? jednocze?nie wszystkich i sam? siebie. Wol? zacz?? od siebie...

Those who are not imitated always get disappointed.

The human experience is meant to be an emotional one, so the extent to which we deny our feelings is the extent to which we deny our purpose for being here.

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

There was nothing fake or added or subtracted about him. He was all himself.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

The world is an estranged and untrue world so long as man does not destroy its dead objectivity and recognize himself and his own life 'behind' the fixed form of things and laws. When he finally wins this self-consciousness, he is on his way not only to the truth of himself, but also of his world. And with the recognition goes the doing. He will try to put this truth into action, and make the world what it essentially is, namely, the fulfillment of man's self-consciousness.

I didn't go to political correctness school.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.