Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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Radio is for driving.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.
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Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
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I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
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Black is not a color.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.
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Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
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The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
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I almost failed one drama course. All the actors talked in phony accents. It shocked me. I went out for track instead.
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I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
