Third Person Quotes

• The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

  Andrew Vachss

  Running, Narrators, Tape

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• She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

  Sarah Kane

  Pride, Talking, Ideas

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• It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Writing, Advantage

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• Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

  Alexandra Kollontai

  Fate, Essence, Bureaucracy

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• One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Speak, Should, Embarrassed

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• I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

  Ringo Starr

  People, Laughing, Thirds

  "Ringo Starr: I like to think the Beatles would have had a reunion" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2013.

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• No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Agents, Body

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• Death means you are in the third person.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Mean, Thirds, Persons

  Michael Ondaatje (2009). “The English Patient: Special Edition”, p.263, A&C Black

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• I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Needs, Stories

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• No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

  Jose Saramago

  Marriage, Men, People

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 48), 1999.

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• In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

  Roger Scruton

  Party, Views, Imagination

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Men, Voice

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• That's a sure sign someone is going crazy - when he refers to himself in the third person, talks in low tones, and walks around wearing shades all day!

  Chris Rock

  Crazy, Shade, Tone

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2002.

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• I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

  Renee Fleming

  Performances, Thirds, Persons

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• Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person.

  Rihanna

  Looks, Situation, Thirds

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• Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

  Cass McCombs

  Weight, Opinion, Thirds

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• All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As you know, one of the principal things at stake in what is called in my texts 'deconstruction', is precisely the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third-person present indicative: S is P.

  Jacques Derrida

  Science, Missing, Ontology

  Jacques Derrida (2010). “Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography”, p.1977, Stanford University Press

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• In a new campaign ad, Jeb Bush referenced 'The Godfather' and said his nickname used to be 'Veto Corleone' because he vetoed so many bills in Florida. When you're the third person in your family to run for president, maybe you shouldn't bring up a movie trilogy where the third one was clearly the worst.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Florida, President

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• Ever argue with a female and, in the middle of the argument, you no longer feel safe because of her actions? She may start pacing back and forth real fast, breathing out her nose. You know what my girl do? When she get mad, she start talking in the third person. That's scary as hell because that's her way of telling me that from this point on, she is not responsible for none of her actions.

  Kevin Hart

  Girl, Real, Talking

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• It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

  Martin Buber

  Pain, Speak, Thirds

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• Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.

  Tyra Banks

  Children, Hate, Cash Flow

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• I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

  Lady Gaga

  Fans, Doe, Way

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• Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Starting, About Yourself, Persons

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

  Jonathan Swift

  Women, Two, Intimate

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• ...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Art, Voice, Sometimes

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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