“We can only be ourselves in the long run. Everyone can be someone else for a time. Actors have jobs for a reason. But eventually, our true natures win out. You never could have been someone else for long, even if you tried. It would have broken you”

“So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.”

“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”

“But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help.""That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”

“But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help.""That may be true," said Reason gravely, "but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”

“That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.”