Charles Bukowski

STATUS QUOtes — 20240212

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.” — Charles Bukowski

“You’re only as good as you’re willing to be bad…The fact that you’re not going to be good at something or that you’re going to fail at something—that’s OK. Because you’re never going to get good unless you’re willing to be bad.” — Randall Stutman

“Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them librarians.” — Charles Stross

“I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side – I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.” — Bethania McKenstry

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210925

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” — Charles Bukowski

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” — Steve Jobs

“We seldom stop to think how many people’s lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.” — Ivy Baker Priest

“We are always saying: Let the law take its course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR course.” — Will Rogers

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20201123

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Is it possible for a home to be a person and not a place?” — Stephanie Perkins

“We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intentions.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.” — Charles Bukowski

“Do you think shaving cream really softens your beard… or is it just so you don’t lose your place?” — Jackie Flynn

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200819

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

 

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“On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.” — Bill Vaughan

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” — C.S. Lewis

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.” — Charles Bukowski

“Henry Ford’s reaction to a consultant who questioned why he paid $50,000 a year to someone who spent most of his time with his feet on his desk.’Because a few years ago that man came up with something that saved me $2,000,000,’ he replied. ‘And when he had that idea his feet were exactly where they are now.’” — Rory Sutherland

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200508

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“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” — Rumi

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.” — Charles Bukowski

“There are some things you don’t learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.” — Kiera Cass

“When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.” — James Boren

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20191218

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“Never offer what you’d hate someone for accepting.” — Tara Ploughman

“Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.” — Isocrates

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.” — Charles Bukowski

“The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.” — J. Frank Dobie

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20181211

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“You bring your own weather to the picnic.” — Harlan Coben, Caught

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” — Margaret Thatcher

“You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” — Charles Bukowski

“I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.” — Sloane Crosley

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180203

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“You learn nothing from life if you think you are right all the time.” — Unknown

“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.” — Carl Sagan

“I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.” — Auguste Rodin

“Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.” — Charles Bukowski

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20171113

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“Imitate. Assimilate. Innovate.” — Clark Terry, jazz trumpet player

“This is not to say that the fishes of which the fisherman dreams are fishes and nothing more.” — Carl Jung

“Most people would rather take the easy road than the high road.” — Tom Zegan

“I don’t like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.” — Charles Bukowski

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170713

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“Just because you’re winning a game doesn’t mean it’s a good game.” — Seth Godin

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” — Charles Bukowski

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.” — Ambrose Bierce

“The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.” — Bernard Avishai

 
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