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No more sand art, no sand book, no masters.

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Death is a master from Germany.

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Who to himself is law, no law doth need.

more quotes from Arthur Chapman

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

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The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

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The bight is littered with old correspondences.

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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

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I know what I know, says the almanac.

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Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

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Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

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The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

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It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

more quotes from Charles Bukowski

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

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Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

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