"And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others."

-- Erving Goffman

#Believe Quotes #Self Quotes #Special Quotes

“Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?”
“Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.”

Source : Wilhelm Stekel (1950). “Autobiography: The life story of a pioneer psychoanalyst”
“It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.”

Source : Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.
“The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes”

Source : Joyce Kilmer, “Roofs”
“If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.”

Source : Kristin Hersh (2011). “Paradoxical Undressing”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.”
“You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.”
“As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.”

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