Quotes About Authenticity

Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden—love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.

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Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves—the greatest test of all.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

On the other hand, she was perfectly at her ease; doubtless the woman in her was not yet awakened; she was yet, as one might say, without sex. She was almost like a boy, frank, candid, unreserved.

What you see is what you see

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable--and that they will never know the one they love. Even when we kiss there is distance; it is a distance that cannot be bridged by romantic love and must be respected if a relationship is to succeed. The real metric by which we can gauge the authenticity of love is not how close we want to be, how merged and intermingled, but how far we can stand apart and still be together.

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable—and that they will never know the one they love...The real metric by which we can gauge the authenticity of love is not how close we want to be, how merged and intermingled, but how far we can stand apart and still be together

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important. This car is fine for me. It gets me around. I know who I am and what I am, and that's what counts, not what other people might think of me.

I looked at it and decided it was not a check I would cash were I a teller and someone presented the check for payment. But a thrift shop dress is usually taken for high fashion when it's revealed under a mink coat.

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Not everyone can see the truth, but everyone can be the truth.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.

I can never tear myself open wide enough to people to reveal everything and so frighten them away.

I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face

I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person...

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