Charles Bukowski Quotes
Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
Quotes to Explore
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'
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I'm a big yogi.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
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I love acting and would love to do it more. It's harder to go into acting as a model now than it ever was because so many models are doing the same thing. I want to do anything that's challenging and not within my comfort zone, and a Bond girl is so different to who I am.
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Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.
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I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.
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It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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That no Flake of snow fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
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Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.
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Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
