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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
(James Baldwin (1924-1987), U.S. author. "No Name in the Street," The Price Of The Ticket (1972, repr. 1985).)
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When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
(Paige Rense (b. 1929), U.S. author and editor. As quoted in the New York Times, p. 37 (February 21, 1994).
The writer and Architectural Digest editor was recalling her brief period of being a housewife.)
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By practice and conviction formed,
With ancient stubbornness ingrained,
Although her body clung and swarmed,
My own identity remained.
(Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (l. 21-24). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
(Max Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss author, critic. Originally published as Montauk, Suhrkamp (1975). Montauk, pp. 95-96, trans. by Geoffrey Skelton, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1976).
Frisch's autobiographical musings about aging.)
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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
(Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. "An Apology for Idlers," Virginibus Puerisque (1881).)
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Oration, August 31, 1837, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The American Scholar," repr. In Emerson: Essays and Lectures, ed. Joel Porte (1983).)
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
(Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. "Astral America," America (1986, trans. 1988).)
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
(Gaius Sallustius Crispus (c. 86-35/34 B.C.), Roman historian. Catilina, XX.)
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In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.
(Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946), U.S. feminist, critic. Speech, March 1, 1975, State University of New York, Stony Brook. "The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door," ch. 4, Our Blood (1976).)
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Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the emotional shock of domestic distress. Even a mediocre performance at the office can help a person repair self-esteem damaged in domestic battles.
(Faye J. Crosby (20th century), U.S. professor. Juggling, ch. 4 (1991).)
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