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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
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He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.
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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
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They were beautiful nothings
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When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
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In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
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There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.
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I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
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Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
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You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.
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Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
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You were destroyed by what you befriended.
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Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
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The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the Watchtower itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.
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The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.
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It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
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Our disappointment sits between us.
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The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
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