"I am a series of small victories and large defeats."

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Charles Bukowski

#Victory Quotes #Defeat Quotes #Small Victories Quotes

“However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.”
“A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.”
“We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.”
“We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.”
“Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.”
“Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting, a revisioning of the self, either subtle or stark. Cure is the new, strange planet, pressing in. The doctor could not have known. And that made me, as it does every patient, only more alone.”

Source : Lauren Slater (2011). “Prozac Diary”, p.13, Random House
“I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in.”
“2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.”

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