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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A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.
Elizabeth Hay
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
A. E. Housman
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Bono
U2
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Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that 'all of our problems' come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.
Anton Chekhov
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People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.
Joe Cocker
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
Charles Bukowski
