Quotes About Anonymity

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

With wiseguys, you don't know a guy by his name, only by his nickname. You never asked a guy for his last name.

I have no desire to be famous, definitely not.

I have no desire to be famous at all.

I've got no desire to be famous myself.

The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

I almost find it very attractive when a woman has no idea who I am.

People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

I would be in class, and we'd talk about influencers and brand deals, and my face would pop up on the screen and they'd start talking about me! They had no idea that I was sitting in the class. I never wanted anyone to know.

There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.

Who was there to write our names, to even know our names and to remember us?

The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.

Anonymity is the new fame.

In the way our world is, everybody shoulder to shoulder, people knowing everything about you at first glance, a good veil is your tinted limousine window. The unlisted number for your face. Behind a good veil, you could be anyone.

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not thestranger.

He thought this city was a good place for him because nobody knew him — And he liked the contradiction that the one place that did know him was the one place he didn't want to be.

She has one pair of worn sneakers, left over from when she first moved to the city and spent long hours on trudging marches between the buildings. Each time she came to the city's edges and saw the churning brown rivers beyond, Lila Mae would hit a right angle and turn back into the buildings, deeper in. She'd never experienced anonymity like that: it's as if the place stimulates enzymes that form a carapace.

I had intended to write this book anonymously, using my prison number only. But when the manuscript was completed, I saw that as an anonymous publication it would lose half its value

I had intended to write this book anonymously, using my prison number only. But when the manuscript was completed, I saw that as an anonymous publication it would lose half its value, and that I must have the courage to state my convictions openly. I therefore refrained from deleting any of the passages, in spite of an intense dislike of exhibitionism.

For most of history, anonymous was a woman.

and to forget one's own sharp absurd little personality, reputation and the rest of it, one should read; see outsiders; think more; write more logically; above all be full of work; and practise anonymity. Silence in company; or the quietest statement, not the showiest; is also medicated as the doctors say. It was an empty party, rather, last night. Very nice here, though.

Me atrevería a decir que Anon, que escribió tantos poemas sin firmarlos, era una mujer.