Quotes About Identity

more earth-bound fiction and especially to shake off the 'Catholic novelist' tag, which first took hold with Brighton Rock; Greene would often say that he was 'not a Catholic writer but a writer who happens to be a Catholic'.3 A memorable phrase, it is more accurate as a description of the second half of his career than of the first. Indeed, it seems that the middle-aged Graham Greene was trying to cover his intellectual and artistic tracks.

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be about something, it has to have depth to it and it has to be about something. The story of the character and their relationship with the people and places around them appeal to me and are what I look for.

I belong to the blank generationI can take it or leave it each time

The tragedy is to die without knowing who you were, to keep the act going till the end.

Were I a woman, I would all day long Sing my own beauty in some holy song, Bend low before it, hushed and half afraid, And say 'I am a woman' all day long.

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

Does a man's existence change in any way when he removes his overcoat? Neither does it change when death removes the overcoat of his body. He's still the same person. No wiser. No happier. No better off. Exactly the same. "Death is merely continuation at another level.

What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross? The

Siempre, a pesar de todo, había deseado encontrar a un semejante: hombre, mujer, niño, no importaba. Sin la incesante influencia de las masas, el sexo perdía rápidamente importancia. En cambio, la soledad seguía en primera línea.

Cornered again, Mr. Cook reluctantly made a third duplicate; then a fourth, a fifth. The city, albeit large, soon became thick with William O. Cooks. He would come upon himself at corners, discover himself asking himself for lights, end up, quite literally, beside himself.

Todos volvieron hacia Neville los rostros pálidos. Neville los observó serenamente. Y de pronto comprendió. Yo soy el anormal ahora. La normalidad es un concepto mayoritario. Norma de muchos, no de un solo hombre.

Birden, ÅŸimdi anormal olan benim, diye düÅŸündü. Normallik bir çoÄŸunluk kavram?yd?, çoÄŸunluÄŸun standard?, sadece bir insan?n deÄŸil.

A sailor without his own ship was like a hermit crab without a shell.

What could be saved, if the Flag of the American Nation were to perish?

Besdies, to turn me ladylike might have rendered me useless and possibly ornamental.

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the pages of a book I can be anybody

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.

T]he name that matters is the name you make for yourself in a life of struggle and success!

Plant-blind. Adam's curse. We only see things that look like us.

For a moment, looking felt like something that happened to you rather than something you did. Not 'Are you who I think you are?' Am I who you think I am?