Quotes About Authenticity

I know that if everyone is a hero, then no one truly is. I concede the term is thrown around far too casually.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

If we do not put effort into creating our original thoughts, then ready-made pseudo-thoughts, trite words and phrases, come automatically to mind and carry us along with them, resulting in "thinking almost entirely without thoughts." (Steiner).

If the scene is about what the scene is about, you're in deep shit.

Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe.

A STORY must obey its own internal laws of probability.

An honest story is at home in one, and only one, place and time.

When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.

There is no such thing as a portable story. An honest story is at home in one, and only one, place and time.

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

To the devil with every miserable desire to seem more than one is.

I don't want to go running down some career path—supposedly such a grand enterprise. What's so grand about it: people acquiring crooked backs at an early age from stooping at undersized desks, wrinkled hands, pale faces, mutilated workday trousers, trembling legs, fat bellies, sour stomachs, bald spots upon their skulls, bitter, snappish, leathery, faded, insipid eyes, ravaged brows and the consciousness of having been conscientious fools. No thank you!

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children....

Be not another if thou canst be thyself.

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

I think you're perfect just the way you are. Don't change anything.

You know who you are. You know who God says you are. Live up to that, and it doesn't matter what others think or say.

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

The chain round my neck gleamed in the daylight too. It looked more like gold this morning, but if I stirred it with a finger it had a queer iridescent quality not at all like real gold, not that I had much acquaintance with the stuff. I had always favored plastic and rhinestones.

I'm real, too. I just don't know, real what.

She was unambiguously herself.