"I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat."

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Charles Bukowski

#Jobs Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Men Quotes

“You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.”
“The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.”

Source : Audrey Sutherland (1978). “Paddling my own canoe”, Kolowalu Book
“I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.”
“I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.”
“Romantic love was invented to manipulate women”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1990). “The Venice installation: United States Pavilion, the 44th Venice Biennale, May 27-September 30, 1990”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.”
“New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.”
“A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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