625 quotes found
“If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We construct a self-portrait, relying on existing objects – books, quot...”
“It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing – to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos – of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings – in the...”
“When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own.”
“I wear makeup and I don dramatic attire because I like control. I’m not interested in controlling others but I’m invested in strict self-governance. This is why I don’t do many face-to-face intervi...”
“And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?”
“Every person’s story contains chapters of pain and loss, victory and defeat, love and hate, pride and prejudice, courage and fear, faith and self-distrust, charity and kindness, selfishness and jea...”
“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me”
“I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,” said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. “And I’ve concluded that I don’t want to be a captain. But I find I like the thought that I could be.”
“I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.”
“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of failure--as if it mattered. It seemed to him now that such thoughts were mean, unworth...”
“Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.”
“Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fêted act of humankind.”
“My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the h...”
“Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.”
“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.”
“I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.”
“He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.”
“Be not another, if you can be yourself.”
“I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.”
“I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?'" 'The way I want it?'" 'Yeah. The way you ...”
