Charles Bukowski Quotes
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
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Concerning the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.
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My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by livingonly my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
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Now watch me go retarded, yellow short bus.
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It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.
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One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.
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One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.
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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.
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Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: 'Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.'
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Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
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I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
