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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.
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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
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I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.
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Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
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I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
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it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
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We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
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the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
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Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
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That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
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well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!
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The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable
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Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.
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It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.
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It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
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Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.
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