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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
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He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
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my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw
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one more creature dizzy with love
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I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
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Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.
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My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
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There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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We are all museums of fear.
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she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness and 2 more: youth and beauty
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there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day
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As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
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The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.
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Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
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Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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