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Quote by Charles Bukowski

“It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?”

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This book delves into the complexities and nuances of love, examining its various forms and the impact it has on individuals and society. more

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Charles Bukowski

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 man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.”

Men Writing Children Country Literature Understanding He Man Quiet Letting Go Eating Doctors Impression Ignorant Contempt Decay Jam Good Writing Resigned Tarts Tuberculosis Good Doctors

Author:Ezra Pound

“I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.”

Silence Captured

Author:Ezra Pound

“A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.”

Littles Light Splendour

Book:The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Source: The Cantos of Ezra Pound

“The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.”

Writing Given Common Secret Attention Reader Pages Strain Lap

Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.”

Ifs Looks Facts Age University Invention Great Inventions

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

“For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?”

Men Doe Age Ought Birth Periods Universal Old Age Infancy

Book:Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

“Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.”

Men Should Mind Stills Body United Wonderful Objects Difficulty

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”

Shows Brain Mines Mortals

Author:Ada Lovelace

“A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.”

May Mean Use Purpose Language Powerful Mankind Possession Practicals Analysis Application Accurate

Author:Ada Lovelace

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