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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.
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But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
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i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
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I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
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It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.
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When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
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my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
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I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
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The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
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...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
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hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
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I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
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When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
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There is nothing as boring as the truth.
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Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
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It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?
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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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We are here to laugh at the odds.
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People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them they would mean less and less to me.
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there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.
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Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
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In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky if not, green grass.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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