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Identity Quotes
"Whoever challenges freaks should noticethat in the method he does not mature into a beast."
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"Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence."
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"What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story."
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"He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form."
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"There's a writer for you, he said. "Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing. [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers-because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer-still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying-only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers."
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"Decide the type of person you want to be, and when others aren't looking, unique up on them."
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"And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all."
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"The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill."
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"She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies."
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"Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs are bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king."
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"There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance."
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"Maybe you're not difficult to live with at all, maybe you're just a busy, successful, beautiful woman who won't settle for anything but the best."
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"I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something."
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"I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent."
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"Complex is something that distort our perception of ourselves and the world."
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"How long have you been a Wiccan?''A what?''A pagan. A witch.''I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?''Wizard has a Z'He looked at me blankly.'No one appreciates me.' I muttered."
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"Sometimes if you want to stand out,you at first have to blend in."
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"Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello."
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"My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it."
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"I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with everyday that passes. . . They change, they deny, they contradict- and they call it growth. At the end there is nothing left, nothing unreveresed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out of an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they never held for a single moment? But Howard- one can imagine him living forever."
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"Unless someone has lived your life, no one can live your dream!"
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"She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering strings of alphanumerics. They have told her so themselves. To save time, they simply call her "Snow."
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"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"
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"You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people."
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"The scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began..."
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"God is funny. He had a funny day when he made me. A funny, thoughtful, crazy day. He gave me a physique by which I would be so easily and so quickly judged, then gave me a mind by which I would so deeply magnetize, He put within me a heart with small, fast wings that I can hardly, barely handle, and then gave me a voice that hides behind everything in whispers. Oh, and also put a pen in my hand which writes me into madness! How can anyone possibly understand me? But I don't think God cared about that thought, when He made me! How ridiculously unfair!"
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"He felt as if there were something missing inside him that didn't fit in with their merriment, with their willing ignorance of the world outside the castle. It went beyond his title. He had enjoyed their company early in his adolescence, but it had become apparent that he'd always be a step away. The worst of it was that they didn't seem to notice he was different- or that he felt different. Were it not for Chaol, he would have felt immensely lonely."
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"She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work."
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"The complex known as feelings of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created."
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"By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity, I want other lights than my own to show all his facets."
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"Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you."
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"Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not."
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"...and who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or her complexion."
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"How can I be myself, when others expect me to be someone else?"
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