Patchy Beard Quotes & Sayings

There is a necessary gestation period during which a writer should protect his work, because the minute he sends it out, or joins a writing group, or enrolls in an MFA program, he engages the part of himself that is focused on the result more than the work. For — Betsy Lerner

I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now. — Laura Kightlinger

A discourse approaches universality when it frees itself from its origins, leaves them behind, disavows them: having reached this point, if it would reinvigorate itself, avoid unreality or sclerosis, it must renounce its own exigencies, break its forms and its models, it must condescend to bad taste. — Emil M. Cioran

The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. — Idries Shah

The individual is increasingly
deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live
his own life, and instead is ruled, fed, clothed and educated as
a social unit, accommodated in the appropriate housing unit,
and amused in accordance with the standards that give pleasure
and satisfaction to the masses. — C. G. Jung

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. — Carlos Castaneda

States strong enough to do good are but few.
Their number would seem limited to three. — Robert Frost