"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

Identity, Perspective, Pride, Humor

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"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Identity, Memory, Past, Truth

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Identity, Church, Army, Day

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Identity, Darkness, Death, Mental

"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

Identity, Violence, Adolescence, Emotion

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Identity, Individual, Experience, Self

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom, Power

"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Identity, Self, Thought, Perception

"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

David Levithan, American Author

Identity, Connection, Desire, Defiance

"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Identity, Memory, Life, Editing, Truth

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Writer, Expression, Self

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"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."

Religion

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

Marriage

"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

Marriage

"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."

Mind

"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."

Art

"I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it."

Confidence

"There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't."

Man

"She had willed herself open to him and knew that the chemistry of love was all within her, her doing. Even his power to wound her with neglect was a power she had created and granted ..."

Love

"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

Satire

"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."

Humility