Quotes About Authenticity

It seemed to her that everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship.

everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners.

Jane had tried that with Mothers Group and failed. She just couldn't relate to those bright, chatty women and their bubbly conversations about husbands who weren't "stepping up" and renovations that weren't finished before the baby was born and that hilarious time they were so busy and tired they left the house without putting on any makeup! (Jane, who was wearing no makeup at the time, and never wore makeup, had kept her face blank and benign, while she inwardly shouted: What the fuck?)

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

Niggas wanna kick it but no I dont play soccer.

When you see a real nigga you gotta tip yo hat.. and since Im a real nigga, I do just that.

Im about to go Andre the Giant, you a sell out but I aint buyin.

Dont you compare me cause there aint nobody near me. They dont see me, but they hear me. They dont fear me, but they feel me.

Tell them to keep my name out their mouth, cause they dont know me.

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

I've never been in style, so I can never go out of style.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

No, I like to wear as least amount of makeup as I can during my everyday life because I'm just all about keeping my skin healthy and hydrated and I love to laugh and have a great time and smile - that's when I feel the most pretty so I just want to make sure that I stay happy.

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her waist.

But she was aware that the story you think you know is never the real one. She

I try to write something new. It's bad and I stop after a few sentences. Even though I didn't feel it at the time, I got into a rhythm with the old novel. I knew those characters and how to write them. I heard their voices and I saw their gestures and anything else feels fake and stiff. I ache for them, people I also once felt were stiff and fake, but who now seem like the only people I could ever write about.

My mother was a real person. I am not a real person.

it scared me, the idea that this professional might go in and find that other person inside me, the person who was feeling all the things I did not let myself feel.