A Quote by Siri Hustvedt

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

Siri Hustvedt

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Siri Hustvedt
American - Novelist
Born: February 19, 1955

Perhaps we've got so involved in the false selves we project on social media that we've forgotten that our real selves, our private selves, are different, are worth saving.

Frankie Boyle

When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages.

Laurie Holden

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

Anais Nin

We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.

Anne Roiphe

I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.

Princess Superstar

Everyone is on a journey to realize their best selves and their realest selves, and I think that's what creates that community.

Nikita Dragun

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

P. J. O'Rourke

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Diane Ackerman

We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.

Frederick Lenz

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

Benjamin Clementine

All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.

Rachel Holmes

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

James MacGregor Burns

Why bad people - who are bad to other people - keep getting hired after they have proven their selves time and again is a mystery to me.

S.E. Cupp

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

Wynton Marsalis

It's been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but it's strange to think that human behaviour hasn't really changed at all since that legend was created.

Robert Del Naja

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