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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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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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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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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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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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
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You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
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Andrea: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero. Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat.
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They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
