625 quotes found
“Identity is theft, dont trust anyone whose state vector hasnt forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.”
“There's nothing like an orgasm to force a person to think--and more often than not, to think too much.”
“There's nothing like an orgasm to make a person think--and more often than not, to think too much.”
“Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.”
“The child (mis)recognizes itself as a whole entity for the first time. It sees an image of itself as a unified person, an image which promises for the child that it will soon achieve full co-ordina...”
“Everything a person is and everything he knows resides in the tangled thicket of his intertwined neurons. These fateful, tiny bridges number in the quadrillions, but they spring from just two sourc...”
“...as I was sifting through a heap of old and new "identity cards," I noticed that something was missing: my identity.”
“Each person whoever was or is or will be has a song. It isnt a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear...”
“(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes (the girl looks back happ...”
“Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for immortality.”
“As I became older, I was given many masks to wear. I could be a laborer laying railroad tracks across the continent, with long hair in a queue to be pulled by pranksters; a gardener trimming the sh...”
“Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel an...”
“Maybe the hardened clay was not as ugly as I had thought. Maybe what I resented was the color my father had painted me. The time had come to sand away some of that dreadful stain.”
“My best works are for me. Not for the world.”
“When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves”
“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.”
“There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.”
“And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my lacunae. So that I can be filled and braced from the inside and fortified for the voya...”
“I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.”
“Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?”
