Quotes About Authenticity

Life isn't for everybody.

Freedom is knowing who you are, and once you know that the rest can straighten out itself if you really know who you are.

If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

The mother of all fake news. You may have seen fake news before, but nothing like what I'm on the verge of perfecting. Soon, I'll be able to make videos showing sweet little Paigey here kicking puppies to death. Or screwing a roomful of tattooed bikers. Or praising Hitler. And the videos will look so real—so perfect—a forensic scientist will vouch for their authenticity. And seeing is believing. The potency of this tool will be astonishing.

You don't need creativity when you're telling the truth,

Psychopaths personified the old saying: "Sincerity: if you can fake that you've got it made.

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

I firmly believe that until the churches of North America are led more deeply into the darkness of our epoch, they will continue to exist largely on the surface of life and history. I

Their writing has the deliberately obstructive style ordinarily employed when someone either has nothing to say or needs to conceal the fact that what they are saying is not true.

Which leads to a question that everybody in genuinely diverse and pluralistic societies must at some point ask: 'Do we take other people at face value, or do we try to read behind their words and actions, claim to see into their hearts and there divine the true motives which their speech and actions have not yet revealed?

I have often found it true that the louder a person speaks, the less they have to say.

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.

In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

They weren't really looking for repentance; postmodern irony would do. When

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it doesn't just confuses everybody, starting with you. RECOMMENDED

Know something about the world, and by this I mean the world outside of books. This might require joining the Marines, or working on an oil rig or as a hash slinger at a truck stop in Kentucky. Know what it smells like out there. If everything you write smells like a library, then your prospective audience will be limited to those who like the smell of libraries.

The important thing to remember is that the words will always be right if they are real and true and come from the heart.

Today you are you, that's truer than true. No one alive is youer than you.

I think I can communicate with kids because I don't try to communicate with kids. Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.