Quotes about Authenticity

Detachment is a rare virtue, and very few people find it lovable, either in themselves or in others. If you ever find a person who likes you in spite of it-still more, because of it-that liking has very great value, because it is perfectly sincere, and because, with that person, you will never need to be anything but sincere yourself.

You would have to abandon the jig-saw kind of story and write a book about human beings for a change.' 'I'm afraid to try that, Peter. It might go too near the bone.' 'It might be the wisest thing you could do.' 'Write it out and get rid of it?' 'Yes.' 'I'll think about that. It would hurt like hell.' 'What would that matter, if it made a good book?

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.