Popular quotes
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“I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!”
Variant: If you see someone without a smile give them yours.
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“The problem is people are being hated when they are real, and are being loved when they are fake.”
Equinoctial Regions of America (1814-1829)
“IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL”
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“No man knows fully what has shaped his own thinking”
Source: Social Theory and Social Structure (1949), p. ix (1957 edition)
“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”
“Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.”
Herald Sun staff (October 13, 2006) "A good life, naturally", Herald Sun, p. 017.
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
VI, 6
Variant: The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking".
“Slowly losing friends is a part of growing up.”
“If people hate you, then you're probably doing something right”
“I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Variant: The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.