#authentic

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am. ↗

— Melanie Hooyenga

#identity #life #self #life

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much. ↗

— Orson Welles

#f-for-fake #frauds #orson-welles #post-modernism #life

I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing. ↗

— Christine Caine

#life

Living a spiritual life may not be easy. It demands total authenticity. It brings you to dance to a unique song that only you can hear fully, and sometimes you dance alone because no others can hear the music. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#debra-moffitt #following-a-unique-path #life-journey #non-fiction-books-inspirational #soul-dance

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ↗

— John le Carre

#credible #every #fiction #fiction writer #knows

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. ↗

— Angela Carter

#authentic #credit #gain #hoax #miracle

George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say, 'Oh, that was American politics in that time period.' I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#american politics #authentic #back #clooney #could

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#create #fiction #invented #language #need

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#accusation #authenticity #concern #lost #modern

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#authentic #being #clients #engaging #enhance