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CROSS When you do a movie, you have to wait months for it to come out and market it and everything else. B... CHRISTINA NORMAN Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know tod... UMBERTO ECO I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I ... GARY OLDMAN I once knew a girl that meant the world to me, she was just amazing. She's that one girl in my life ... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB It was a waiting game till Monday when he had his surgery. Those three days were horrible. We didn't... MARLIN HOWELL I have never doubted the truth of signs, Adso; they are the only things man has with which to orient... UMBERTO ECO I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. 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JO FURNISS I don't talk about it. But when I was a little girl, my father was abusive when he drank and seemed ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t... NATALIE ZEA As I sit here in my favorite chair, I'm reminded of a story that my father shared with me when I was... BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done ov... REGIS PHILBIN There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment wh... GERARD WAY There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment wh... GERARD WAY Anyhow, I took every stitch of clothing off and got out of bed. And I got down on my knees on the fl... HARUKI MURAKAMI The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going ... GEORGE LOPEZ I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta... SHELLIE PALMER What have you done to my cat?" Magnus demanded... "You drank his blood, didn't you? You said you wer... CASSANDRA CLARE Words will always be the words, the world will change. MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway betw... TIM DALY Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
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Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show.... CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats... CHARLES BUKOWSKI My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter... CHARLES BUKOWSKI My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t... CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making words do a few things. I see enoug... CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over. CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with belief, deluded myself with love tricked myself w... CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had something to do with the politics of the thing. CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but... CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp. I am. still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication. CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i... CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know. CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough... CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe... CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking up and down this room smoking my cigars taking hits of my <... CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca... CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI