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Identity Quotes
"An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity."
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
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"The very point that you are not likened by somebody in proof of your authenticity and uniqueness."
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"Moxie gave me a small smile. "Why do you always say that- which here means?""I'll probably outgrow it," I said."
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"He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape."
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"His eyes widened. "Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn't think less of you."
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"You are the stories and incidents that you never tell to anyone. You are the thoughts that you get while standing under the shower. You are those memories that won't lets you sleep at night peacefully. You are those words that you will never say while speaking with someone. You are those scars that you always hide from everyone. You are those little secrets that you will never let the world know. You are everything that you hide under the identity that you call the real you."
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"You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine."Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?"Y-yes, Mr. D."Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?" You're a god."Yes, child."A god. You."
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"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
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"No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, liberation of hidden treasures, buried fantasies..."
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"The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portugese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson."
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"At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood."
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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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"The greatest tragedy in your life will not be the death of a loved one or a natural disaster; those things hurt like hell and devastate to the core. But loss like that is part of life. What's not necessary and is therefore most tragic is the demise of your truest identity, your dying before you're dead, the moments when you let the words and judgments of others define who you are instead of rising above that pain to be the person you were meant to be. No matter what has happened in your past, you are still capable of becoming a better version of who you are at this moment. Think right. Believe the voice inside of you that speaks the truth. You are a divine marvel. Act like it. Live like it."
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"You are either born a writer or you are not."
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"They can award me with the greatest accolades and reward me with the finest diamonds. They can name days and streets after me, canonise and celebrate me. They can make me the queen of their kingdom, the president of their nation. They can carry my picture in their wallets and whisper my name in their prayers but, tell me, what is all this worth if your voice isn't the one calling me home?"
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"The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not."
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"I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer."
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"Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual."
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"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
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"A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me."
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"He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that."
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"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."
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"Nations are not made by mere geographical boundaries; they are forged by the character and aspirations of their people."
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"To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes."
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"I can't apologize for who I am any more. Even better, I have no desire to."
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"It's your difference that sets you apart not your similarity, stand out!"
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"My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way."
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"I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick."
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"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
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"[They] can't understand you: you're such an exceptional person. That's what I liked about you from the start, I felt that you weren't like everybody else."
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"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
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"Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.andJust because you don't have a heart, doesn't make you heartless.Now, does it?"
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"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming."
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"I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent, it just had to be something you lived with."
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