Charles Bukowski Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
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One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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δῶς
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά.
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.
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I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.
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You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
