625 quotes found
“I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.”
“That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.”
“who are youreally?you are not a nameor a height, or a weightor a genderyou are not an ageand you are not where you are fromyou are your favorite booksand the songs stuck in your headyou are your th...”
“He had the vanity to believe men did not like him while men simply did not know him.”
“What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original,...”
“His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.”
“Be not another, if you can be yourself. ”
“It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.”
“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.”
“I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.”
“Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.”
“I had a book of Bible stories when I was a kid. There was a picture I'd look at twenty times every day: Jacob wrestles with the angel. I don't really remember the story, or why the wrestling --just...”
“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 ...”
“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?”
“If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.”
“But I never looked like that! - How do you know? What is the you you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic b...”
“We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.Without them, we are empty.”
“Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.”
“I am neither I nor the other oneI am something in between”
“I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.”
