“ Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man. Alice Walker
“ Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pity… Susan Cain
“ Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves. William Shakespeare
“ God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed. David Foster Wallace
“ A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of… W. Somerset Maugham
“ The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that the… C. JoyBell C.
“ Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry. Khang Kijarro Nguyen
“ Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your chara… Sebastian Faulks
“ I am a strong individual that may seem weak; but, my strength is in my ability to stay in the fight and sure my enemies that I can take the punches; and, still stay strong in my weakness. Because with… Temitope Owosela
“ Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space. Elizabeth Alexander
“ They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that espouse views certain interested parties want espoused. We flood forums, online comment sections, socia… Daniel Suarez
“ He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little. Colleen Chen
“ I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More Karen Swallow Prior
“ The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs. Kristen Henderson
“ I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind. Norman Lock
