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Charles Bukowski
"If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."
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Source : "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015. 
Charles Bukowski
#Friendship Quotes
#Jail Quotes
#Interesting Quotes
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“HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is WHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway, WHEN did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person WHO lives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you - WHAT is perfect.”
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“Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.”
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“For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.”
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“When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it — and everybody was talking about it — that I decided to keep it.”
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“Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.”
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“someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.”
Source : Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
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“...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.”
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“There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.”
Source : Joy Williams (2010). “Taking Care”, p.210, Vintage
