"When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity."

-- Charles Bukowski

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“Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red....”
“Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.”

Source : Colonel's Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6
“Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.”
“If youâ€™re happy, you eat. If youâ€™re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. Itâ€™s, you know, itâ€™s addiction,”
“The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point. Rid yourself of all the mental and emotional blocks that keep you from manifesting your full creative potential.”
“The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.”
“In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.”
“At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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