Charles Bukowski Quotes
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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Apparently, something happens on the sun. It sends out a burst of gases. The reservoirs above our earth shake like a bowl of jelly. The radiation droozles out at the ends and makes the auroral displays at the North and South Poles.
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The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.
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The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.
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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
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H. E. Butler's translation:
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
