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I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybod...

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I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not ...

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I write poetry, worry, smile,laughsleepcontinue for a whilejust like most of usjust like all of us;s...

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the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

the people are the biggesthorror show on earth,have been forcenturies.

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects...

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I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand a...

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

I write poetry, worry, smile,laughsleepcontinue for a whilejust like most of usjust like all of us;s...

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Charles BukowskiWhat Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, ...

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the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a g...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be ind...

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We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst c...

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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of oth...

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There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human sou...

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I love mankind it's people I can't stand.

I love mankind it's people I can't stand.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble...

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There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get...

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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than...

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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and...

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As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so r...

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A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? T...

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I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of...

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A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...

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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the ...

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Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly ...

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It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The...

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Everywhere I go, people ask me about Jennifer Aniston's wedding. Everywhere I go. I always say to he...

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The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Ta...

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People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality...

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If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the...

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In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me ...

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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money...

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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against ...

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...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE N...

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Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

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Chetan Bhagat2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; C...

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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not ...

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I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that ...

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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers ...

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I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and t...

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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them ...

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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as ...

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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fu...

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Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerg...

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I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The ...

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Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everyone else.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our might...

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We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest t...

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I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very h...

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The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates th...

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I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a sym...

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And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it w...

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What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't ...

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We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I...

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It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I w...

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In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to...

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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. ...

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Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on th...

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Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget tho...

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In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop...

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There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the t...

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If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our ...

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We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innoce...

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People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warnin...

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The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with peopl...

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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a mini...

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When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, i...

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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's sim...

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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave ...

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What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're dir...

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I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rende...

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A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this grea...

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Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best da...

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Colum McCannLet the Great World Spin

People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with t...

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Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.