Erving Goffman Quotes
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
Quotes to Explore
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I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
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This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.
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It is important to be still and listen and follow the Spirit.
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I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.
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A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
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Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.
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Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
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Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.
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There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
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Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
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I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Life is a gift, love opens it up.
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I think we really have to ask ourselves, are we really using to children to promote ourselves?
