"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the ***** and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Heart Quotes #Clerks Quotes #Want Quotes

“As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.”
“Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian levels. We don't have open sewers and infant mortality rates at fifty percent but in economic terms we're getting to a level of disparity we haven't seen for a couple of hundred years. And we're getting there very quickly.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
“Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!”

Source : Conrad Aiken (2015). “The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken”, p.41, Open Road Media
“The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.”
“Sinning persons are just like this boy who fell into the drain. Now, high or low, upgraded or degraded, all are equal. All are equal for Him because heaven is His creation, hell is His creation. If we say the Supreme is only in heaven, it will not be a correct utterance, because He is in hell also. His sons, His daughters, are never alone, He is with you even in hell.”
“I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.”
“I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.”

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