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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
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sometimes I hate you, she said.
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I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.
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Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
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Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.
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Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
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I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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Sundays kill more people than bombs.
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my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
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Something that never happens anywhere at any time.
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I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.
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as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.
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They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
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too often, the only escape is sleep
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you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.
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Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.
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There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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