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• They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Stars, Party, Passion

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.636, e-artnow

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• Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.

  Arianna Huffington

  Self, Expression, People

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• You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

  Tom Stoppard

  Artist, Men, Self

  Tom Stoppard (1996). “Travesties”, p.41, Grove Press

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• Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

  Rosanne Cash

  Self, Expression, Crafts

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• Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

  Graham Greene

  Selfish, Expression, Ends

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Self, Expression

  "Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley", www.today.com. October 28, 2014.

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• If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.

  Dave Barry

  Golf, Self, Expression

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• Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

  David Brooks

  School, Self, Expression

  David Brooks (2011). “The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I always try and mix High Street finds into my looks. It really doesn't matter how much something costs, it's the way you wear it! Fashion is about self expression, having fun, and occasionally being a little disposable. I really enjoy lots of stores that are found at local shopping malls. French Connection, Zara, and Topshop always interpret the fashions direct from the catwalk at affordable prices. This playsuit from Hoss Intropia is delicate, super sexy, and has a lingerie feel. I'd throw on a super soft, chunky cardigan and a pair of flat gladiator sandals.

  Cat Deeley

  Sexy, Fashion, Fun

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• Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.

  Josee Chouinard

  Self, Expression, Play

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• Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Lying, Self, Expression

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• [T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Strong, Lying, Struggle

  Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr

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• In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Self, Expression

  "Peter Camenzind". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1904.

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• Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

  James Q. Wilson

  Character, Self, Expression

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.2, American Enterprise Institute

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• There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Writing, Self, Expression

  H. P. Lovecraft (2000). “The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Hippocampus

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• Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Art, Mean, Opportunity

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• Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

  Mervyn Levy

  Song, Art, Freedom

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• For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

  Tyler Cowen

  Artist, Self, Expression

  Tyler Cowen (2000). “What Price Fame?”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

  Marita Golden

  Educational, Real, Reading

  Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books

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• If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation-an opportunity for growth, for full Self expression, for lifting your lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea you ever had about you, and for ultimate reunion with God through the communion of your two souls-if you take that vow instead of the vows you've been taking-the relationship has begun on a very good note.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.112, Penguin

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• Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

  Varg Vikernes

  Sheep, Self, Expression

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• For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art, poetry, and music. As that kind of artist, I can do anything. I can say anything. It's about self-expression. It knows no package - there's no such thing. That's what being an artist is.

  Laura Nyro

  Art, Expression, Self

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• We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Children

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• I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fear, Expression

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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• For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave.

  Justin Frankel

  Mean, Self, Expression

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