"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity."

Identity, Class, Country

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"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity."

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Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"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."

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bell hooks, American Critic

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"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

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Stephen King, American Author

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

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"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

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"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

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Man

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Business

"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."

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Music

"Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence."

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"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

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"When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm."

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