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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.
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Your writing, she said to me, it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
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The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.
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purple does something strange to me
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there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late
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Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
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one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
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Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.
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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
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there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.
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and love was lightning and remembrance
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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
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And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.
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Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
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Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
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WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.
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I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
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The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.
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But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.
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I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
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I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
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