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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I'm a lot more serious on the court. I'm probably a lot more intense than some of these guys thought I would be. Off the court, I'm a totally different dude. But my passion's to win, and I'm a perfectionist out there.
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God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.
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I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.
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What they critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.
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I love theater: I can do shows that are completely different from one another. Altar Boyz had heavy dance moves, but also a comic edge to it. And now I'm utilizing all my physical skills: jumping on walls, doing pratfalls and bits and huge takes. My whole show is basically lining up one bit after the next.
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I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
