"Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates"

-- Don Meyer

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“The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.”
“I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.”
“There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.”
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”

Source : Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.505, Canongate Books
“When I look at the women, it's from a male gaze of being fascinated, because beyond my mother, I've been around notorious women all of my life, and then, secondly, when I look at women and try and create fictional stories around them.”
“People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.”
“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.”

Source : Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.
“When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.”

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