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Identity Quotes
"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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"His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile."
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"Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval."
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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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"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."
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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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"When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'."
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"What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as the creation of a painting. I created a woman for my artist life, bold, gay, courageous, generous, fearless; and another to please my father, a clear-sighted woman with a love of beauty, harmony, and self-discipline, critical and selective; and still another who lives in chaos, embraces the weak and the stumbling and the confused."
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"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
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"Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings' identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is the highest expression of reality. We only attain the fullest knowledge of a living thing including ourselves when we know what it was, understand what it now is, and understand what it can become. We do not know the truth of a living thing's existence until we discern its entire history from development to demise."
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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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"I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man."
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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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"Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?"
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"I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF."
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"I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape."
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"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."
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"There is only one you.And there will never be another one.Thats your power."
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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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"By day I am nothing, by night I am I."
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"An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity."
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"It's your difference that sets you apart not your similarity, stand out!"
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
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"People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne."
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
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"I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew.The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new,And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you."
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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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"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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"The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among."
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"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
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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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"I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity."
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"I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility."
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"Dear GIRLS your very own identity is more important than a marriage certificate."
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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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