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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.
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stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
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I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?
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Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
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I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
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You don't go on probably when love and guns are in hand.
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That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
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If you want to create, you'll create.
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That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
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Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that
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I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
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Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
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writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
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A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.
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I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?
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