Henry Chinaski Quotes

#1. Henry Chinaski, the principal said over the microphone. And I walked forward. There was no applause. The one kindly soul in the audience gave two or three clasps.

Charles Bukowski

#2. Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking.
Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)

Charles Bukowski

#3. Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are trying to tell us/ ... It's native to the words/and what they want us always to know/even when it seems quite impossible to do.

William Meredith

#4. There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

John Matthews

#5. I'd been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot).

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#6. The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be.
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Alan Cohen

#7. California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.

Craig Benson

#8. TIL when Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, '100 Authors Against Einstein', he replied: Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.

Anonymous

#9. In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

Curtis Hutson

#10. If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.

Don Roff

#11. Butler's interception comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year.

Tom Brady

#12. Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!

Sheng Yen

#13. The more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

Anne Truitt

#14. People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth.

Ed Smith

#15. I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.

Chris Martin

#16. There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#17. Hard and impossible are two different things!

Eric Thomas