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Identity Quotes
"He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either."
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"You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages."
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"I will reveal you who I am. I am your reflection."
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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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"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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"His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile."
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
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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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"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 truly fearless think of themselves as normal."
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"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
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"You are either born a writer or you are not."
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"You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you."
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"Who are you without your labels and attachments to the issues you are passionate about? Remove the emotions, remove the beliefs and associations, and simply focus on the rational and practical applications that promote peaceful progression."
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"Who are you' is a question of both substance and position. In other words, what is the authority of your voice, service, product or performance in relation to the needs of those you intend to serve? Secondly, have you defined and demystified yourself enough to be accepted as the solution of choice?"
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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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"Having grown up here, I always wonder what it would be like to see this city as a tourist. Is it ever a disappointment? I have to believe that New York always lives up to its reputation. The buildings really are that tall. The lights really are that bright. There's truly a story on every corner. But it still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions. To not feel the bright lights even as they fill the air. To see the tall buildings and only feel a deep longing for the stars."
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"She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixednature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born."
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"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."
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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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"While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful."
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"So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist."
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"The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities."
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"Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not."
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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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"Song of MyselfI have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now."
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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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"We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that."
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"He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape."
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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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"None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it."
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"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
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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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"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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"Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself."
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"My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me."
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"I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow-written on, rewritten, smoothed over."
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"It's impossible, he snapped. "Why? "Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that."
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