Quotes About Authenticity

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

The trouble with most photographers, and for that matter also with painters, and other people, is, that they are always trying to do something which is outside of themselves. In consequence they produce nothing that means anything to those who have the gift or intuition for truth: all else is really not worth a tinker's damn.

No matter how many times you stir up a steaming pile of crap, it's still just a steaming pile of crap.

The best form of devotion to the service of God is not to make a show of it.

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You never stop being yourself on the inside, whatever age people think you are by looking at you from the outside.

We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.

This isn't fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

There's no point in making up a world, Elisabeth said, when there's already a real world, There's just the world, and there's the truth about the world. You mean there's the truth, and there's the made-up version of it that we get told about the world, Daniel said. No. The world exists. Stories are made up, Elisabeth said. But no less true for that, Daniel said.

Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.

Beauty is the true way to change things for the better. To make things better. There should be a lot more beauty in all our lives. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. There is no such thing as fake beauty. Which is why beauty is so powerful. Beauty assuages.

Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere.

It would be good to be full of holes, she says. Then all the things you can't express would maybe just flow out.

Is it possible, he said, to be in love not with someone but with their eyes. I mean, with how eyes that aren't yours let you see where you are, who you are…We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters…It is the only responsibility memory has. But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quote regardless.

I'm good at the real and the true and the beautiful and can do With some skill and With or without flattery the Place where all 3 meet ...

Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.

People who judge you all the time are not people you go to with real questions and problems. Starting

People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?