"The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?"

-- Gilles Deleuze

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Shame Quotes

“I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.”
“[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2000). “The Paul Bowles reader”
“You get married, you start having responsibilities. It's really hard if your dream hasn't caught some traction by the time you're in your mid-to-late 20s. You want to provide for your family. I would say, the majority of people fall in that boat. They want to do something, but life gets in the way. And they're like "well, I'm going to get this job, and have safety and security."”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.”
“Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.”
“I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.”
“Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better”
“Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.”

You may also like:

Alain Badiou
Philosopher
Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Henri Bergson
Philosopher
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher
Jacques Lacan
Psychoanalyst
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
Michel Foucault
Philosopher
Roland Barthes
Philosopher