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“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the…”

— Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”

— Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting,…”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

— Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers At Last

“Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. She knew how to go beyond the limit without ever truly suffering the consequences. In the end people gave in, and were even, however unwillingly, compelled to praise her.”

— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

“I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have - forget sex - because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain.”

— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.”

— Aberjhani, The Wisdom of W.E.B. DuBois

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy — it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

— Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

“The conclusion we drew from this convinced us that it was best to do everything on purpose, deliberately, so that you would know what to expect.”

— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

“I like people who unbalance me.”

— Colum McCann, Let The Great World Spin

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

— John Green, Paper Towns

“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”

— Myra McEntire, Hourglass

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

— John Irving, The World According to Garp

“I find that fear and not wanting to take risks, and staying too comfortable makes people wait. They’ll say, ‘I’ll wait until this happens, I’ll wait until I go to film school, I’ll wait until I have all the money, I’ll wait until they ask me.’ Don’t wait for permission. Seek without permission. Ther…”

— Ava DuVernay, Balls of Steel

“Tumblr has now confirmed it was hacked in a data breach from 2013, which affected a set of users “Email addresses and Passwords”, but Tumblr has refused to reveal how many people were affected. With the release of the data, for sale on The Real Deal darknet marketplace, it has now been confirmed tha…”

— E-SUSHI, 65 Million Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal

“I want to say that to know something, to really know it and not just know of it, is to go with it. To know, then, is not to know about something but to know with something, to be moved with that thing.”

— Daniel Coffeen, Knowing Things

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“What would Twitter be like today if it had embraced its ecosystem and tried to build on it instead of cutting it off at the knees? I don’t really know, and I’m not sure anyone does. But I think it would have a lot more goodwill to spend — both with developers and with users — than it does now, and I…”

— Mathew Ingram, Twitter’s multi-billion dollar mistake happened five years ago