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Quote by Charles Bukowski

“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”

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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

“"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."”

Ifs Looks Said Helping Happens Care Missing Information Casts Glad Indication Androids

Author:Philip K. Dick

“Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.”

People Games Given Nations Freedom Accepting Watches Democracy Minutes Acceptance Institutions Invention Propaganda Absolute Freedom Trueness Placating

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you’re making a choice, ask yourself if it’s going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.”

Ifs Thinking Choices Asks And Love Stress Unity Separation

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.”

Needs Night Courses Fear Rooms Impossible Comfort Horror Right Now Wake Up Manage Shock Assurance Tunnels Psychiatrist Cement Bell Jar Shuddering

Book:Letters Home

Source: Letters Home

“Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”

Ifs Made States Easy Alive Stones I'm Alive Bell Jar

Book:Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

Source: Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy

“I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.”

Born Privilege Bitterness

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.”

Bigs Fans Jimmy Snl

Author:Julian Casablancas

“It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.”

Want Fishes Cease Useless Chips Beckett Rams Puke Fish And Chips

Book:Watt

Source: Watt

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