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Talking About Self

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Pretentious? Moi?

John Cleese

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I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Ralph Ellison

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The seaman’s story is of tempest, the plowman’s of his team of bulls; the soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his tale of sheep.

Sextus Propertius

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Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Publilius Syrus

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal

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Think of the Bible and Homer think of Shakespeare and think of me.

Gertrude Stein

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Be not thy tongue thy own shame’s orator.

William Shakespeare

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