Charles Bukowski Quotes
Sometimes I felt that I didn’t even know who I was. All right, I’m Nicky Belane. But check this. Somebody could yell out, ‘Hey, Harry! Harry Martel!’ and I’d most likely answer, ‘Yeah, what is it?’ I mean, I could be anybody, what does it matter?
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.
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Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.
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I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.
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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
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I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
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I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?
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We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she’s much too beautiful to be unkind.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time,When we're not just toeing the line.
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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
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When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.
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The historian amputates reality.
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Sometimes I felt that I didn’t even know who I was. All right, I’m Nicky Belane. But check this. Somebody could yell out, ‘Hey, Harry! Harry Martel!’ and I’d most likely answer, ‘Yeah, what is it?’ I mean, I could be anybody, what does it matter?
