"News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens."

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Charles Bukowski

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“Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.”
“These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness”
“Emerging at the other end, we will not be the same as we were; we will have become more humble, more connected to the natural world, fitter, leaner, more skilled and, ultimately, wiser.”
“I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.”
“This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it.”

Source : Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company
“Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.”
“My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'”

Source : "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.
“If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.”

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