"I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #People Quotes

“How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?”
“Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.”
“If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.”
“Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.”

Source : Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”
“I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.”
“I donâ€™t want to be rude, but Iâ€™m not that social. When I say, â€œI never go out,â€ I mean, â€œI never go out.â€”
“What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.”

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