"Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money."

-- Charles Bukowski

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“Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.”
“Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.”
“Prayer is the best answer to all of the trials that face us, because without prayer, even if we succeed in accomplishing some great goal in the eyes of men, we have failed in our sacred responsibilities, and thus we have failed in what is truly important.”
“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

Source : Hilari Bell (2009). “Crown of Earth”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“When you have a big heart and big stuff, anything is possible.”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.”
“Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.”
“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.”

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