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Erving Goffman has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
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Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
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The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to…
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The world, in truth, is a wedding.
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Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated,…
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Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
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Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and…
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters…
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Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise…
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All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify
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The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
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Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each…
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters…
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I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way,…
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You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
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A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.
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To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and…
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What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at…
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Everybody has theyre own audience you know what Im saying. I write rhymes and make music for the people that I fell…
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