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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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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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 was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.
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I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be...' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.
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I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've either seen them perform, or we're mutual fans of each other, something like that. I don't have any authentic, 'Catfish'-worthy stories.
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Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
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One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.
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But, if you don't like your current Rx coverage or don't have any coverage to begin with, you'll now have the choice to add this new affordable option to your current Medicare plan.
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If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
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I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
