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

— Jeanette Winterson

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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. ↗

— Thom Yorke

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Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting. ↗

— Paul Guilfoyle

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The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight. ↗

— Paul Guilfoyle

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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

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When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

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Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with them, betraying its elitism, sexism or individualism in the very ‘aesthetic’ or ‘unpolitical’ language it finds natural to use of the literary text. It assumes, in the main, that at the centre of the world is the contemplative individual self, bowed over its book, striving to gain touch with experience, truth, reality, history or tradition. Other things matter too, of course — this individual is in personal relationship with others, and we are always much more than readers — but it is notable how often such individual consciousness, set in its small circle of relationships, ends up as the touchstone of all else. The further we move from the rich inwardness of the personal life, of which literature is the supreme exemplar, the more drab, mechanical and impersonal existence becomes. It is a view equivalent in the literary sphere to what has been called possessive individualism in the social realm, much as the former attitude may shudder at the latter: it reflects the values of a political system which subordinates the sociality of human life to solitary individual enterprise. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

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