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“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“About the only valid definition (of science fiction) that I’m willing to accept is this: all of modern, mainstream, and realistic fiction is simply a branch, a category, or a subset of science fiction.”
― Mike Resnick

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― kurt vonnegut

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“If it works, it's out of date.”
― David Bowie

“The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
― David Bowie

“I'm a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can't throw it away. It's physically impossible to leave my hand! Some of them are in warehouses. I've got a library that I keep the ones I really really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself--I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, 'F@#%k, I can't read two-thirds of these books.' It overwhelms me with sadness."
--David Bowie, quoted in the Daily Beast in a 2002 interview with Bob Guccione, Jr.”
― David Bowie

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
― Groucho Marx

“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.”
― Groucho Marx

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

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

“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”
― Charles Bukowski

“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
― Milan Kundera

“Honor your ex for the gifts they gave you.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Our difficult loved ones are in our lives to teach us tolerance. Meet people with love even when they don’t meet you with love.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“When you like a flower, you pluck it. When you love a flower, you water it daily.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Eyes. Those damn eyes fucked me forever.”
― Charles Bukowski

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.”
― Charles Bukowski

“you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgot to get old.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office