Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
K. Flay
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
Karen Duffy
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
Walter Kerr
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren Buffett
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
Aaron Allston
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I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
Dawn Steel
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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
Thomas Hobbes
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
Saint Basil
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Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop.
Philip Pullman
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
Charles Bukowski
