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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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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I've been rapping since I was 13.
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Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.
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When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.
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If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.
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I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
