"I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep."

-- Charles Bukowski

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“I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.”
“Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.”

Source : "South Carolina Democratic Chair On How Candidates Can Appeal To Black Voters". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. February 11, 2016.
“I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Now the seasons are closing their files on each of us, the heavy drawers full of certificates rolling back into the tree trunks, a few old papers flocking away. Someone we loved has fallen from our thoughts, making a little, glittering splash like a bicycle pushed by a breeze. Otherwise, not much has happened; we fell in love again, finding that one red reather on the wind.”

Source : Ted Kooser (2005). “Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985”, p.96, University of Pittsburgh Press
“If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.”
“He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.”
“After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, â€˜In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.â€™ Â I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. Â He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. Â I said, â€˜In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.â€™”
“I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.”

Source : Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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