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“I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.”

Looks Mean Persons Said Kids My Own Figures Mirrors Sticks Dumb Justify Mean Person

Author:Uma Thurman

“That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.”

World Stills Soul Desire My Own Wall Morality Diversity Mirrors Fallen Abstract Sensations Metaphysics Centre

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.”

People Helping My Own Mines Mirrors Raises Autobiography Glimpse Estimation

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.”

Ifs Book Might Faces My Own Issues Alive Mirrors Raises Debate Welcome

Author:John Scott

“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.”

Way School Values My Own Teach Practice Study Failing Mirrors Investment Environmental University Shocking Yale Citing Alma Mater Yale University

Author:Edward Norton

“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.”

Source: The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her

“Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.”

World Faces Universe Stars My Own Space Watches Sky Involved Mirrors Regard Surface Shells

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.”

Book Eye Running Past Opportunity My Own Cities Ready Mirrors Train Blow London Criminals Discrimination Immigrants Maps Nests Submerged Gunmen

Book:London: City of Disappearances

Source: London: City of Disappearances

“Every day it gets easier to look into my own eyes on the mirror and say, "I love you just the way you are."”

Way Looks Eye My Own Love You Easier Mirrors Say I Love You

Author:Louise Hay

“I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.”

Thinking My Own Saws Wall Mirrors Enjoyed Shirts Bedroom Motto Adopted T Shirt Printed Ceilings

Author:Peg Bracken

“I think that when you start your own business you have to be very clear on what you're passionate about and what your values are. I was very passionate about travel and I wanted to inspire other people. At the same time, I knew if I was going to start my own business, it was going to have to mirror my values, and I knew I was passionate about the environment and about sustainability.”

People Ifs Thinking Wanted Values My Own Clear Environment Inspire Mirrors Passionate Sustainability Own Business Inspire Others

Author:Omar Samra

“What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all artists are fighting. I want to hold the mirror up to society and help them see themselves more clearly. I also love just making people laugh.”

People World Way Want Helping Artist Fighting Chance My Own Laughing Special Mirrors Making People Laugh

Author:Jinkx Monsoon

“My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.”

World Writing Trying Littles Dream Reality Black My Own White Reader Understood Absolutes Mirrors Complexes Casts Honestly Hopefully Black And White Dream World Ambivalent

Author:Andre Dubus