Quotes About Authenticity

You have to drag them into the light.

Being somebody's looking glass is not your job.

bookshelves, which were full of what she thought of as "fake" books—the books were real enough but if Celia Baxter had read Thomas Pynchon or Samuel Beckett or even all—any!—of the Philip Roths and Saul Bellows lined in a row, she'd eat her mittens.

Many commentators on John's life have said that John would never have married me if I hadn't been pregnant. In the film Backbeat I was portrayed as a clingy, dim little girlfriend in a headscarf. Totally wrong, of course. Quite apart from anything else I never wore a headscarf.

All she had to do was tell the truth. This would be easy. I should've known, though. Real truth is never easy" -Lily

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be—not to have a "career," but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do." —Pete Cassidy

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

He felt — washed clean, healed. He felt if he could just live here he would be all right. He felt as if he had never been alive before. He felt at ease with himself and as if he had come home to a place where he could be himself, without hiding anything, without pretending even to himself. He felt, thinking his way back up the beach, as if his brain had just woken up from some long sleep, and it wanted to run along beside the waves, to see how far and fast it could go.

Better to write for yourself and have no public; than to write for the public and have no self.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

He felt old and miserable, going through life trying to peddle a personality of which people would not even accept a free sample.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - "Meglio scrivere per se stessi e non avere un pubblico piuttosto che scrivere per gli altri e non essere se stessi".

Perché bisogna portare con sé la propria vita come uno spettacolo effimero e invisibile agli altri?

Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.

No, non imiterò mai coloro che cancellano le proprie tracce, ripudiano il proprio passato e sono morti, anche se con equilibrismi intellettuali fanno finta di essere vivi. Le mie radici sono laggiù, all'Est, su questo non v'è alcun dubbio. Anche se trovo difficile e spiacevole spiegare chi sono, bisogna pur tentare di farlo.

I was driven because I wanted to be like others. I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me.

In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out And stood in the light, licking its tail.

To tell the truth we should not exist. We, not any collective plural, just you and me.

Poetry is the passionate pursuit of the real.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.