Authenticity Quotes

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it" "In order to write about life first you must live it" "The most common form of despair is not being who you are." "Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are" "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last." "I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire." "I prefer to be true to myself even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence" "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." "Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges" "Money will only make you more of what you already are." "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true" "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "The best way to avoid becoming a celebrity is to continue doing the things you love" "If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow" "We all need someone to look at us to see the real, deeply buried person underneath the surface, more than we need another person to talk." "What labels me, negates me." "Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either " "I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself" "While you are proclaiming peace with your lips be careful to have it even more fully in your heart" "I like to be a free spirit Some don't like that but that's the way I am"