Quotes About Self-revelation

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

Kendimi bir ona gösterece?im. Bir ona gösterece?im, çünkü, bir yerden y?rt?lmam?? bir gizlili?in de tad? yoktur.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found.

Es stimmt nicht einmal, daß ich immer nur mich selbst beschrieben habe. Ich habe mich selbst nie beschrieben. Ich habe mich nur verraten.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

And it occurred to her that for a woman who opened her mouth every other second, there was an awful lot inside of her that she'd never shared.

I want to show people all of me, because that's what I haven't been doing. To be able to play so many instruments, and no one's ever seen me play, it seems like someone who's bluffing.

Whitman's art: to promise absolute self-revelation and give us fresh gestures of evasion, hesitation, concealment. Better thus, though Walt proclaimed: "I swear I dare not shirk any part of myself." Stevens learned from Whitman "the intricate evasions of as.

Just as light is manifestion of itself and its other, that which is dark, and can only know itself by revealing that other, so too with the ego, which is only rrevealed to itself in so far as its other is revealed to it in the shape of something independent of it.

I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.

I want to show people what I'm about - not just, 'Here's my celebrity partner this year that I'm going to showcase.'

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white, " until later their true colors come out.

You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.

behind ourself, concealed—should startle most," wrote Emily Dickinson

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

Whatever these futilities of mine may be, I have no intention of hiding them any more than I would a bald and grizzled portrait of myself. These are my humours, my opinions, things which I believe, not to be believed. My aim is reveal myself which may well be different tomorrow.