"All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Guy Quotes #Chance Quotes #Needed Quotes

“After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there”
“Sharia ... is, of course, invalid because it's God's Law, and God doesn't exist.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Wake Up, America", www.youtube.com. October 22, 2009.
“I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.”
“Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.”
“Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.”
“To really love Joan Didionâ€”to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcaseâ€”you have to be female.”
“In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.”
“Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.”

Source : Gail Parent (2004). “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York”, p.135, The Overlook Press

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