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“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”

“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.”

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

“...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.”

“I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself.”

“Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.”