Publisher's Synopsis
"I think, therefore I am."-René Descartes "I am out with lanterns, looking for myself."-Emily Dickinson "It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning round."-Henry David Thoreau "I am I because my little dog knows me."-Gertrude Stein "I'm glad I'm not me."-Bob Dylan "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."-Kurt Vonnegut Are there many selves? Is there a true self? Are you the one you choose? Or are you the one that chooses you? These and other age-old questions are answered by this collection of pithy sayings and witty rejoinders from the likes of William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Peter Sellers, Jean Paul-Sartre, Gertrude Stein, Carl Jung, Marilyn Monroe and many more of history's most introspective - and, perhaps, narcissistic - writers, poets, philosophers, musicians, comedians, actors and politicians. Conceived and edited by Joan Konner, the bestselling author of The Atheist's Bible, this compendium reaches back across centuries of self-consciousness, self-doubt and self-love to explore every facet of the idea of the self. THE BOOK OF I reminds us that we're not alone if we look in the mirror and wonder, "Who am I?"