“Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.”

— Douglas Coupland, book Girlfriend in a Coma

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

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Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

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“You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 36

“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Remark to scientist Herman Francis Mark
1940s, Only Then Shall We Find Courage (1946)

“Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody- and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”

Mark Twain book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe.”

Charlie Huston book Joe Pitt Casebooks

My Dead Body, Character: Joe Pitt (narration)
Joe Pitt Casebooks

“An intelligent society would have made of them people like everybody else!”

Ravachol (1859–1892) French anarchist

Une société intelligente en aurait fait des gens comme tout le monde!
Trial statement

“Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such a thing should ask it of Santa Claus, in whom they doubtless also believe.”

Revilo P. Oliver (1908–1994) American philologist

"What We Owe Our Parasites", speech (June 1968); Free Speech magazine (October and November 1995)
1990s

“I have always believed that fashion was not made only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.”

Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008) fashion designer

As quoted in "50 Days of Everyday Fashion" in Yours magazine.

“I do this to feign confidence, because the more I fake it, the more it's supposed to feel true.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.”

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