"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone."

-- Charles Bukowski

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“From this moment forwardâ€¦I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes.”
“What is important is the future. After 40 years of creation, I continue. This is what I love.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.”
“No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?”
“The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.”
“Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.1989, Delphi Classics
“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”
“You shouldn't face discrimination because of your sexual orientation. That should be illegal.”

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