Charles Bukowski Quotes
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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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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I think political correctness is a moving line.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
