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Identity Quotes
"I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man."
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"When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'."
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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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"Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?"
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"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
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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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"Are you bisexual""Labels were invented for people like you who can't grasp a reality outside of a defined gender role. I like what i like."
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"Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again."
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"I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility."
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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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"Be different.. be yourself."
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"At once, it's clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don't have the arrogance. Apparently, I'm too "vulnerable for ferocity. I'm not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all."
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"After so many years struggling to keep up with you, I finally realized we're not even running the same race."
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"Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do."
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"Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm town high school I play for is nicknamed the "Indians," and I'm probably the only actual Indian ever to play for a team with such a mascot.This morning I pick up the sports page and read the headline: INDIANS LOSE AGAIN.Go ahead and tell me none of this is supposed to hurt me very much."
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"People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne."
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"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
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"Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself."
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"The greatest thing about me isn't even a part of me. It's you."
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"If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. Perhaps that is a little strange, yes, but in all honesty, I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a smug aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo."
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"Coolness is not an image that can be bought or worn. True cool is an attitude that is projected from a person who is extremely comfortable in their own skin."
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"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."
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"Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past."
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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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"So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes."
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"Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do."
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
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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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"Your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary."
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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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"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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