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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
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All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.
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I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
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The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.
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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
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I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
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Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
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But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.
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Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds they are nothing alone.
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With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.
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It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
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Love is a Dog from Hell.
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When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
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Only the boring get bored
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what matters most is how well you walk through the fire
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It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.
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and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
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There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.
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I had no Freedom. I had nothing.
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Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
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