Quotes About Authenticity

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.

I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

Some people call this being a nonconformist, but that term misses the point. We don't choose not to conform. We don't even notice what the standard we're not conforming to is!

They speak their mind in Yorkshire.

What matters the most is that you live your own story to the fullest and that you tell it well. Be off now. The world awaits you

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.

are spontaneously generous if forced to make instant decisions but begin to gravitate toward more selfish strategies if given time to think. All of this suggests that honest behavior is governed by automatic mental processes, whereas controlled processes are involved in lying or faking. In other words, effortless, unselfconscious behavior—behavior that is wu-wei—acts like a window into our true character.

If he [Pound] is not careful he will take to meaning what he says instead of saying what he means.

So I say to you: Beste children, if varken het kan, why not you? I say: Blijf in jezelf believen. I say: The world will giggle misschien, but I say: Just follow the varkentje, let the world your kontje maar zien.

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

I ask you, what do I have to hide? The fact that I'm not half the man I wanted to be? The fact that these little pieces of wisdom I string together add up to not much at all?