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Quote by Charles Bukowski

“If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.”

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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

“The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.”

People Thinking Believe Wells Has Beens Stills Problem Happens Religious Stupid Criticism Intelligent Nuclear Educated Idiot Paradise Isolation Bombs Sane Virgins Nuclear Bomb Well Educated

Author:Sam Harris

“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.”

Mercy Idols Manufacturing Sentimentality

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I’m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it’ll be just like coming home.”

May Sometimes Home Action Walks Behinds Doors Gates Coming Home Not Afraid Rationality Asylums

Author:Grant Morrison

“And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.”

Feels Asks Cutting Arms Razors Feels Just

Author:Grant Morrison

“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”

Eye Forget Color Hair Desert Sand Be You

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.”

Color Driving Autumn Provence Up North

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.”

Book Hate Knowing I Hate Illness Medical Symptoms

Author:Paulo Coelho

“In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.”

World Matter Wanted Messages Bird Wings Flight Spokes Soar Flew Intimidated

Book:Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.”

Matter Spirit Gold Fixed Olden Times

Book:The Dogma of High Magic

Source: The Dogma of High Magic

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