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Quote by Charles Bukowski

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”

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Charles Bukowski, born on August 16, 1920, was an influential American poet. Known for his unique style and profound depiction of the lives of the underclass in America, he is considered one of the representatives of the Beat Generation. more

“She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that he’d put her life in order. What she felt for Bram was messy, honest, and soul-deep. He felt like…part of her, the best and the worst. Like someone she wanted to struggle through life with; share triumphs and catastrophes; share holidays, birthdays, every days”

“perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.”

Ifs Individual Wish Oneself Midst Conformity Individualism Multitudes Grotesque

Author:Salman Rushdie

“If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.”

Ifs World Looks Fashion New York Photograph Headlines New York Times Of Context Great Fashion

Author:Anna Wintour

“You either know fashion or you don't.”

Knows Fashion Fashion And Style Fashion Style Inspiring Fashion

Author:Anna Wintour

“Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.”

Way Whole Practice One Day Conscious Unconscious Fragments Make Out

Book:Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Source: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

“We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again”

Men Together Kings Horse Back Together Together Again If I Stay Back Together Again Humpty Dumpty

Book:If I Stay

Source: If I Stay

“Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)”

World Enough Angry Clever Shakes Organize Fists Entropy

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.”

People Book Ideas Form Courses Pleasure Vision Pieces Shadow Window Glasses Boards Peculiar Aesthetic Essays Lectures Stained Glass Syllabus

Book:The Children's Book

Source: The Children's Book

“People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments.”

People Ifs Knows Want Firsts Littles Two Fit Judgment Nervous Upset Seconds Snaps Predetermined Snap Judgment

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

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