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Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future! Sylvia Plath
A. Whitney Brown quote: "The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only..."
The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed. A. Whitney Brown
The connection was good. I could hear her breathing in the spaces between our words. How do you talk to the real person whose ghost has haunted you? How do you tell the difference between the two? Sherman Alexie
For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for, since a biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may have many thousand…and these selves of which we are built up, one on top of the other, as plates are piled on a waiter’s hand, have attachments elsewhere, sympathies, little constitutions and rights of their own… so that one will only come if it is raining, another in a room with green... Virginia Woolf
This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and it's object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Mark Twain
The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Tina Fey
Ivan Turgenev quote: "But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and..."
But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery. Ivan Turgenev
Sharon Olds quote: "Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who..."
Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back. Sharon Olds
David Baldacci quote: "The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the..."
The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske) David Baldacci
You don't know who a person is until you see how he acts when given unexpected power. He hasn't rehearsed for the part. So what you see is what he is. Orson Scott Card
Terry Prachett quote: "One person is nothing. Two people are a nation."
One person is nothing. Two people are a nation. Terry Prachett
I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly. Emma Thompson
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent. Barbara Kingsolver
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a... Alexander Dumas
... a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer. Mark Haddon

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