Quotes About Anonymity

They send him away and no one ever sees him again. That's what happens to writers who put their names on things.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.

The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.

Anonymous inanely stupid letter,' he said. 'Who has ever sent me an anonymous letter? Who capable of rational thought sends anyone an anonymous letter?

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know.

They're just words," I tell her. "From small men who are brave on the other side of a keyboard and an Internet handle.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

His name isn't Hurkos. He doesn't remember his name.

Nameless has no credit cards. He rarely carries identification of any kind, not even in false names.

He doesn't wear gloves and won't bother to wipe down any surfaces prior to leaving, for he has no fingerprints. They were removed with the application of a series of lightly applied acids and CO2 laser treatments

You and people like you must have developed these places. You must believe you can come and go from them as anonymous as ghosts." He wanted to argue, persuade, litigate, but no jury waited to be convinced, no judge to rule in his favor. There was just Jane, who had no courtroom role. She was only, possibly, his executioner.

We hadn't yet mentioned our names. We probably wouldn't. In barrooms I lived this over and over.

It's the anonymity of the war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers.

It's the anonymity of war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers.

When we met, that night aboard the Porpoise—I'm glad you didn't know who I was. I Ã¢â'¬Â¦ liked you. Then.

I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.

I'd like to be rich, but without all the downside of fame.

If I never showed my face, it would kind of be easier.

I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.

8chan is an empty piece of paper for writing on.