"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals."

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Charles Bukowski

#Drinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Lazy Quotes

“The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you”
“Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate.”
“Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.”

Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (1985). “You will hear thunder: Akhmatova, poems”, Ohio Univ Pr
“In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.”
“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”
“Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.”
“What I do is so important to me. Itâ€™s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.”
“The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!”

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