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Swallow Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
- There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death…
More Swallow Quotes
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez
- An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it. — Emily Post
- We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes… — Jo Brand
- Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Burton
- I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying… — Sylvia Plath
- In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics… — Oscar Wilde