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Quote by Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”

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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

“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.”

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Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.”

People World Way Writing Sometimes Stories Body Language Cities Quality Becoming Involved Weight Method Structure Sticks Heavenly Remove Inertia Heavenly Bodies Subtraction

Author:Italo Calvino

“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender”

Ifs Firsts Care Beats Tests Don't Care I Don't Care Cheat Ender Enders Game

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.”

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Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”

Giving Divine Strive Giving Back

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)

“What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.”

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Book:Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss

Source: Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss

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