"I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Long Quotes #World Quotes #Another World Quotes

“Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.”
“We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.”
“My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.”
“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
“This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.”

Source : "On the edge of social breakdown". UK Independence Party Website, May 31, 2012.
“I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.”
“Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.”

Source : "Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries'". The Monday Interview with Andy McSmith, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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