Charles Bukowski Quotes
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
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Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
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For his was now the loveliest partOf the young poet's life, when first,In solitude and silence nurst,His genius rises like a springUnnoticed in its wandering;Ere winter cloud or summer rayHave chill'd, or wasted it away,
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I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back,' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
