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Charles Bukowski Inspirational Quotes (472)

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the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.
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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
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I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
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I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
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the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.
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When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
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My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
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I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
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You are thirty minutes late. Yes. Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral? No. Why not, pray tell? Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
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It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.
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t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.
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in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.
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The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
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There's nothing unusual about love.
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It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.
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well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you
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eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.
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I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
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That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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