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Charles Bukowski Quotes

Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Charles Bukowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

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Me Writing Sometimes Caught Disease

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Fear Hope Day Forward End Go

If you really want it, you need to really work for it.

Jesse McCartney

Work You Want Need Really

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Wise Single Welfare Legislation Just

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

Man White Africa Indigenous Zimbabwe

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

Steven Van Zandt

Mother Me Young Stepfather Adopted

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers.

Quality Someone Argument Write Your

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

Life Moving On Moving My Life Canada

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Life Nothing More Ironic Than

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Nature Scenery Feel Escape More

The cautious seldom err.

Leadership Cautious Seldom Err

When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experience. And I think we all want that; we all want to see ourselves, our story told, something to relate to, to help us and know that we're not freaks, that our experiences aren't odd.

Experience Story Think Help Know

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Pierre de Fermat

Me Know Will Everything Posterity

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