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“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
― Peter Ustinov

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.”
― Peter Ustinov

“It is our responsibilities not ourselves that we should take seriously.”
― Peter Ustinov

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious”
― Peter Ustinov

“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
― Peter Ustinov

“Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.”
― Peter Ustinov

“Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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― Peter Ustinov

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
― Peter Ustinov

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
― Charles Bukowski

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgot to get old.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum