"Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real."

Identity, Truth, Power, Leadership

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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

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"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

"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

"But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Identity, Absence, Memory, Mind

"We go to Europe to be Americanized."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Identity, Europe, Travel, Culture

"I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis."

Mary Teresa Norton, British Writer

Identity, Congress, Lady

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"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

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"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"

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"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

Peace

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

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"You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."

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"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."

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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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are."

"We go to Europe to be Americanized."

"I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis."

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"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!"

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."

"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it'll get you the right ones."

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

"You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."

"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."