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"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

"Who would you impress if the world was blind?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Identity, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Call me Richard. That's my real name. Call me that."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Today, Power

"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

"I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light."

Melody Lee, American Poet

Identity, Darkness, Light, Life, Love

"Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that."

David Levithan, American Author

Identity, Love, Complexity, Sexuality

"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Identity, Appearance, Age, Perception, Time

"But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Identity, Freedom, Snobbery, Detachment

"Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Identity, People, Self, Public

"If you're born a man, be a man. If a woman, be proud of being one. For, you're not the body, mind, this or that. "Ye are gods!" - human."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Identity, Gender, Pride, Self

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People

"Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive."

Time

"There was nothing there but black water and American fire power."

Power

"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."

Location

"I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't."

Politics

"This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character."

Friendship

"I think character is permanent, and issues are transient."

Character

"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."

Independence

"I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do."

Man

"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."

Law