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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Having no destination,
I am never lost.”
― Ikkyu

“These days, everybody is supposed to be so intelligent: ‘Isn’t it terrible about Nixon getting elected?’ ‘Did you hear about the earthquake in Peru?’ And you’re supposed to have all the answers. But when it gets down to the nitty-gritty, like, ‘What is bugging you, mister? Why can’t you make it with your wife? Why do you lie awake all night staring at the ceiling? Why, why, why do you refuse to recognize you have problems and deal with them?’
The answer is that people have forgotten how to relate or respond. In this day of mass communications and instant communications, there is no communication between people. Instead it’s long-winded stories or hostile bits, or laughter. But nobody’s really laughing. It’s more an hysterical, joyless kind of sound.
Translation: ‘I am here and I don’t know why.”
― John Cassavetes, Cassavetes on Cassavetes

“Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to... As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”
― John Cassavetes

“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. ”
― Luis Bunuel

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
― W.C. Fields

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.”
― Ryokan

“In this dream world
we doze
and talk of dreams—
dream, dream on,
as much as you wish”
― Ryokan

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.”
― Federico García-Lorca

“Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.”
― Federico García-Lorca

“We're all curious about what might hurt us.”
― Federico García Lorca

“Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.”
― Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.”
― Luis Buñuel

“Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.”
― Brendan Behan

“There is no such thing as bad publicity...except your own obituary”
― Brendan Behan

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.”
― Billie Holiday

“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”
― Billie Holiday

“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”
― Billie Holiday

“You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”
― Billie Holiday

“You can be up to your boobies in
white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar cane for miles, but you
can still be working on a plantation.”
― Billie Holiday

“Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.”
― Jack White

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
― Charles Bukowski