“I am all that there is of the most real.”

Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

Quote in Gainsborough's letter, 14 Sept. 1767, to his friend William Jackson of Exeter; as cited in The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough, ed. Mary Woodall, 1961
1755 - 1769

"A Bouquet of Wild Flowers", article published in the Missouri Ruralist (20 July 1917)

Jacques Lipchitz cited in: Bertie Charles Forbes (1992) Forbes, Vol. 149, Nr. 5-9, p. 424

Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh (1986), p. 65
Context: I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hinderance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future.

Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 7 : The Power of Words, p. 104
Context: If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come. They will come a spoonful at a time, in the proper mixture.

Source: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 4: The Clouds of the Sanctuary.

Commenting on her novel The Group. New York Herald Tribune (5 January 1964)