"I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I donâ€™t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Spiritual Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.”
“Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.551
“Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.”

Source : Dawoud Bey, Walker Art Center (1995). “Dawoud Bey: portraits 1975-1995”
“I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.”
“Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.”
“Designing a website can be a bit like being a kid and inheriting a sweetshop. It's easy to get carried away. There are so many choices. A website can be like an attic that never fills up. Space is not the problem. Attention is.”

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