"The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Lonely Quotes #Museums Quotes #Empty Quotes

“They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.”

Source : 1871 Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.
“If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.”

Source : Quoted in Wash. Post, 15 Apr. 1976
“Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all”
“Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”
“How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.”
“There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.”
“A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today”
“Feminism â€¦ I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girlâ€”doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if youâ€™re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, thatâ€™s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriersâ€”manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.”

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