
“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard (21 August 1903)
Source: Tropic of Capricorn
“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard (21 August 1903)
“What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.”
In a 1965 interview with Walter Cronkite, as quoted in "Just A Couple Of Legends" CBS News.com (20 May 1998) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/05/20/entertainment/main9899.shtml
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
" Charlene Wong: Everything is okay in the end and if it's not okay, it's not the end", in Lifeskate.com (15 December 2008) http://www.lifeskate.com/skate/2008/12/charlene-wong-everything-is-okay-in-the-end-and-if-its-not-okay-its-not-the-end.html
version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): Voor mij zou het leven waardeloos zijn als er niet de moderne kunst was en als ik niet de mogelijkheid had om me daarin te uiten op welke manier dan ook, nu ik de wijze waarop ik mij kan uiten langzamerhand heb gevonden.
Quote of Werkman in his letter to August Henkels, June 1942, as cited by Doeke Sijens in H. N. Werkman - Leven & Werk - 1882-1945, ed. A. de Vries, J. van der Spek, D. Sijens, M. Jansen; WBooks, Groninger Museum / Stichting Werkman, 2015 (transl: Fons Heijnsbroek), p. 64
1940's
“What I do for a living is talk. What I do for life is action.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 140