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Identity Quotes
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
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"Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ['The past was her best friend']"
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"I'm a writer first and a woman after."
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"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
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"I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat."
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"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
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"What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
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"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."
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"I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves."
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"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories."
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"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American."
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"I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille."
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"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."
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"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."
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"When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before."
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"I don t care what name you called me before, give me a new name. My old name is not important but my new name is very important. Did they call you Barren? your new name is pregnant."
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"Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!"
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"Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced."
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"Why should we change that which makes us unique?"
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"There's no point pretending to be someone or something we're not."
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"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."
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"While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful."
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"Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation."
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"It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim."
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"In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out."
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"Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same."
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"If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else."
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"I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are."
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