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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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i dunno, i said, but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness
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Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
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I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
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Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
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if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
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...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
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It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
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I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.
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nobody ever finds the one
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
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some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
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I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
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Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.
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mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
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Life's as kind as you let it be.
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Never get out of bed before noon.
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True revolution comes from true revulsion when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
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my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
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