Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

Lauren Beukes

Tags: style fashion personality personae personal-style



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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

Julian Barnes

Tags: age history philosophy time nostalgia memory personality mellow merit



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Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!

Walter Isaacson

Tags: color personality perfectionism blue quirks steve-jobs imac



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Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.

Walter Isaacson

Tags: personality biography quirks steve-jobs



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Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!"

How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.

Murasaki Shikibu

Tags: reading personality shyness independent-women



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The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"

"Wouldn't I know which one I was?"

"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

Derek Landy

Tags: truth perception lies self-deception personality good-and-evil villains truth-and-lies



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When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.

Shannon L. Alder

Tags: friends kindness happiness joy eulogy happy positive attitude character fun memories negative personality attraction positivity frienship joyful positive-attitude law-of-attraction good-times fun-loving staying-positive stayingpositiveu-com upbeat



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You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

Ashly Lorenzana

Tags: insanity sanity mind personality psychological surface lurker



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Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

Julian Barnes

Tags: people personality stealing



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It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Tags: life truth advice love people fact character personality deep surface



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