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Authenticity Quote by Nick Laird

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“She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.”

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What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the…

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That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

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You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

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Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at…

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Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more…

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Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never…

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There is such a shelter in each other.

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Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

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“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10”

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Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

Martin Luther King, Jr

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Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

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“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

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I think people can read authenticity and they know when you're involved and when you're just slapping your name on something.

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“I strive for authenticity even though it brings with it vulnerability and the inevitable judgment of others.”

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Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor…

Brennan Manning

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“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.”

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Anything that I ever do is from the heart and authentic.

Belinda Carlisle

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What I love about Nivea is they're all about authenticity. The brand isn't pretending to be anything it isn't.

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There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in…

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