“Identity is not taste or fashion; it has nothing to do with what we’ve purchased in the past or want to buy in the future. Identity comes from making real choices that force you to decide what is true, fair, and just. Identity is not given to you; it’s earned by your life experiences.”
Against Authority: Freedom and the Rise of Surveillance States (2014)
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Quoted in Really Reading Gertrude Stein : A Selected Anthology with essays (1989) by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press ISBN 0-895-94380-8, p. 253
“You create identity, you're not given identity per se.”
Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
Context: You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's texts that create the identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.

The Power of Now (1997)
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Quote, 1960's; as quoted in The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p. 307
Quotes, 1960 - 1970
“What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.”
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)