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Quotes about Authenticity

Truth is not spoken in anger.Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
— JM Coetzee
The filth of village; honestly acquired.
— JM Coetzee
Follow your own nature.
— JM Coetzee
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
— Jack Kerouac
I'd rather die than be famous, I want to go live in the desert With long wild hair, eating At my campfire, full of sand
— Jack Kerouac
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live.
— Jack Kerouac
If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.
— Jack Kerouac
He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him.
— Jack Kerouac
I wanted to go and get Rita again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this time, and calm her fears about men. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
— Jack Kerouac
I think my sudden love for this girl is a truer expression of myself than anything.
— Jack Kerouac
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk-real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
— Jack Kerouac
Billy Graham that the world saw on television or saw on the big screen was the same Billy Graham that we saw at home. He wasn't two people.
— Franklin Graham