Quotes About Authenticity

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.

I am confessedly and unashamedly almost fifty years old and never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.

He had learned what all skilled liars register if they're ever to make a career of it: Always appropriate as much of the truth as possible. A wellconstructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact

Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.

I'd get this, I luuuuuuuv you, buddy! stuff, and I'd just look at him like, Who are you talking to, guy? What does that mean, your dad 'loves' you and hasn't a [bleep]ing clue who you are? What's he love then? Some kid in Happy Days. Not me.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

Real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness

Should what you get up to fail to comport with who you think you are, something is surely inaccurate (and likely optimistic) about who you think you are.

It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.

The feeling was not of being attractive precisely, but rather of not having to entertain. It was breathtaking: to be ensconced in another person's company, yet to be relieved of the relentless minute-by-minute obligation to redeem one's existence - for there is some sense in which socially we are all on the Late Show, grinning, throwing off nervous witticisms, and crossing our legs, as a big hook behind the curtains lurks in the wings.

Just because you learn something in adulthood doesn't mean it's fake.

No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.

Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't?

Obsequiousness was a quality that you bought. Fraudulence merely made the fawning seem more expensive.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence, unreason.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Courage' isn't the kind of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.

Live what is within you out loud.

Ketika kau mencintai seseorang, secara otomatis kau menerima segala sesuatu tentang dirinya. Hal-hal yang menjadikan dirinya apa adanya, itulah yang mebuatmu mencintainya. (David Koster - Haunted (Teratu))

I'd like to say I'm not dressed up for anyone in particular, but that would be a lie.

More than we realize, girls understand us to be saying that they must always be utterly and completely forthright. That's a problem, especially when we combine it with the cultural injunction to be agreeable. A girl can't actually accomplish both because, like any other human, every girl contains a world of complicated thoughts and feelings. She cannot possibly be simultaneously see-through and utterly pleasing to others.