If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. Charles Bukowski
It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.
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Brandon Sanderson
First step to success is to drop what we are not and accept who we are. Always be yourself.
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Joshua Okello
When you strike the shepherd you strike the sheep.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion does not take orders from sheep.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers
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Agona Apell
More Quotes By Charles Bukowski
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
The future though imminent is obscure.
Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
