Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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If something bad happens, you drink to forget it; if something good happens, you drink to celebrate it; and if nothing happens, you drink to make something happen.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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There are those who lose their mind completely to be soul: mad. There are those who lose their soul completely to be mind: intellectuals. There are those who lose both to be accepted.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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There are times when a man has to fight so much for life that he doesn't even have time to live it.

William M. Bulger

William M. Bulger

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There is no better measure of what a person is than what they do when they have complete freedom to choose.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Destiny laughs at probabilities.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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As long as there are books, the past does not exist.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Love is the activity of the idle and the leisure of the active man.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.