“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
But maybe this is who he really is, maybe we go through life never actually being ourselves, mostly never being ourselves. Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
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“You start out as a phony and become real.” —Glenn O’Brien
“I guess we’re at the point in history where being a person has become a liability. Better to just be a disembodied jumble of ideas.”
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“At which point do we confront the fact that we live one life and perform another, or others, attempting to make our momentary forgetting true and lasting forgetting?”
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Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
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All of this research shows that we are the great masterworks of our own storytelling minds—figments of our own imaginations. We think of ourselves as very stable and real. But our memories constrain our self-creation less than we think, and they are constantly being distorted by our hopes and dreams. Until the day we die, we are living the story of
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But maybe this is who he really is, maybe we go through life never actually being ourselves, mostly never being ourselves. Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.