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Quote by Charles Bukowski

“The wisdom to quit is all we have left.”

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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

“Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

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Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“The visible becomes inevitable.”

Inevitable Visible

Book:The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.”

“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”

Ready Regret Thousand Statements

Author:Hermann Hesse

“We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.”

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Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.”

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Book:I Don't Know How She Does It

Source: I Don't Know How She Does It

“When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.”

Thinking Knows World Want Young Mother Understanding Curves Shields Old You

Author:Allison Pearson

“In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.”

Wells Return Defined

Book:I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

Source: I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

“There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.”

People Thinking Way Different Sometimes Different Ways Cheat Infidelity

Author:Sandra Bullock

“Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?”

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Book:I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

Source: I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

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