Books Quote by Kenneth Patchen Download Open image “In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.” — Kenneth Patchen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Conform Inferiors Knuckles Life Literature
“Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism” — Yahya Mohamed Copy Share Image
“Conformity is usually beneficial to society, but is often detrimental to individuality.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is. But the thing that makes us human are those times we listen… — Evan Spiegel Copy Share Image
“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
In a world where conformity breeds acceptance, stand tall and go against the grain, because when every ones going the wrong way, you will… — Kemar Hinds Copy Share Image
“The animal I wanted Couldn't get into the world I can hear it crying When I sit like this away from life” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
“What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of man to expose with laws of doubt & impatience, no feeling of wonder that he should a participant in… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night. — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image