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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.
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Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
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why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
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He asked, what makes a man a writer? well, I said, it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. are you desperate? I don't know.
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there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds
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Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.
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and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it
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American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
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Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
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they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
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Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times
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Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
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There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.
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Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.
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Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.
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morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
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