Quotes About Authenticity

turn off the bullshit for the moment, Jack. Turn off that lawyer brain of yours and the thinking three steps ahead and the self-absorption and that overriding love of money you have, and answer me seriously and honestly.

He had know guys all his life who gave him that feeling. Even as a kid. People who were always lying, even when they didn't have to.

Now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Go through the motions, Adam." "What motions?" "Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Because he loved true things he tried to explain.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

There's no thing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of a postage stamp.

When the first innocence goes, you can't stop—unless you're a hypocrite or a fool.

and what is truth?

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty

I was afraid I had you in me. No, I haven't. I'm my own. I don't have to be you. I just know. It just came to me whole. If I'm mean, it's my own mean.

The door was closed to men. It was a sanctuary where women could be themselves—smelly, wanton, mystic, conceited, truthful, and interested. The whalebone corsets came off at Dessie's, the sacred corsets that molded and warped woman-flesh into goddess-flesh. At Dessie's they were women who went to the toilet and overate and scratched and farted. And from this freedom came laughter, roars of laughter.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is a dreadful beauty.

Maybe what I want ain't anywhere in the world, but I want it, so I think there is such a thing. I want a guy that's wide open. I want him to be a real guy, maybe even a tough guy, but I want a window in him. He can have his dukes up every other place but not with me. And he got to need the hell out of me. He got to be the kind of guy that if he aint' got me he ain't got nothing. And brother, that guys' going to have something!

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. What a great burden of guilt men have!

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

My father made a mold and forced me into it," Adam said. "I was a bad casting but I couldn't be remelted. Nobody can be remelted. And so I remained a bad casting

I try to write what seems to me true. If it isn't true for other people, then it isn't good art. But I've only my own eyes to see with. I won't use the eyes of other people.