Jim Butcher Quotes

Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

I lied all my life.

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

You have to strip people of their poses and disguises.

You're always just going to be who you are.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here