Quotes Tagged With :pretentiousness

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need....

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to....

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting....

July 7, 1986: Montreux It is only now that I realize the importance of a biography. I mean I always have....

You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus....

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed....

don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don’t....

I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you....