"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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"I am not the river I am the net."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."

John Green, American Author

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"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"

David Levithan, American Author

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"I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser."

Wisdom, Aging, Experience, Reflection

"There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals."

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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

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"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."

Anxiety, Guilt, Darkness, Subconscious

"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."

Parenting, Expectation, Reality, Tradition

"My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy."

Art, Creation, Magic, Joy

"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."

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"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."

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

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"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."

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