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Identity Quotes
"Who can give a man this, his own name?"
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"The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here."
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"Seek not outside yourself for love, because what you are looking for is what you really are."
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"All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic."
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"As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us."
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"We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, 'This is who I am and I am okay. This is simple not easy.'"
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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 cause of my profound sense of incompatibility with others is, I believe, that most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts.For the ordinary man, to feel is to live, and to think is to know how to live. For me, to think is to live, and to feel is merely food for thought."
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"If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?"
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"But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers."
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"The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time any person openly leaves the sexual norm, their sexuality becomes, more often than not, the absolute defining characteristic of that person. It becomes the first thing people think about and often the first thing they mention. Every other part of that person all but disappears."
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"Her hair was longer than it used to be, and it veiled her shoulders like a shawl. She used it for protection. If there was one thing Sydney knew, it was hair. She loved beauty school and loved working in the salon in Boise. Hair said more about people than they knew, and Sydney understood the language naturally."
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"My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks."
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"What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.'I suspect I am a hooligan."
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"It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important."
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"I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement."
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"Once you label me you negate me."
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"There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out."
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"Being real is being true to you."
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"Who are you?' he asked.I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on."
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"When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories."
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"Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!"
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"The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees."
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"In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother."
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"He was the captain of the rugby team and he was built like a fucking gorilla. He had the personality of a fucking gorilla, too."
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"We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us."
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"In order to do something you must be something."
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"My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child."
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"A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself."
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"I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian."
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"I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many."
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"I wanted to buy a T-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWABLE."
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"I thought of what my mom had said. 'You talk like a man.' It was easier to talk like a man than to be one."
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"Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)"
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"All I can be is me- whoever that is."
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