Fairsing Quotes & Sayings

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit. — Idries Shah

There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure. — Martin Freeman

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be. — Willa Cather

Marriage and sex and money the only living devils. — Swami Vivekananda

From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love. — John Lennon

Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

What job do you want to do?
And I see them all hanging up before me, like clothes on a rack, all the jobs, tinker, tailor, soldier, and you have to pick one and then you have to pretend for the rest of your life that that's what you are. So they aint no different really from accidents of birth. I didn't know that phrase then but I learnt it later. It's a good phrase ... — Graham Swift

It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books. — Phil Klay

Sin is the monarch that rules the heart of every man. It is the first lord of the soul, and its virus has contaminated every living being. — John F. MacArthur Jr.