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“Find what you love and let it kill
you.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“You have to die a few times before
you can really
live.” - Charles Bukowski |
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“An intellectual says a simple thing in
a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“Some people never go crazy. What
truly horrible lives they must lead.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“Do you hate people? I don't hate
them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
- Charles Bukowski, |
“Real loneliness is not necessarily
limited to when you are alone.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“The problem with the world is that
the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of
confidence.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“being alone never felt right.
sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“I loved you like a man loves a woman
he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“Poetry is what happens when nothing
else can.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“What a weary time those years were --
to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“If you're losing your soul and you
know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
- Charles Bukowski |
“Without literature, life is hell.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“Of course it's possible to love a
human being if you don't know them too well.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“People with no morals often
considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel
or love.”
- Charles Bukowski, |
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“There are times when those eyes
inside your brain stare back at you.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“It was like the beginning of life and
laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun”
- Charles Bukowski, |
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“We don’t even ask happiness, just a
little less pain.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“writers are desperate people and when
they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl,
I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”
- Charles Bukowski, |
“what matters most is how well you
walk through the fire”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair,
loneliness; and 2 more: youth and
beauty”
-Charles Bukowski
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“It's better to do a dull thing with
style than a dangerous thing without it.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“The more crap you believe, the
better off you are.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“The crazy ones only laugh when there
is no reason to laugh.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too
little.”
- Charles Bukowski, |
“unless the sun inside you is burning
your gut, don't do it”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“Beware Those who are always
reading books”
- Charles Bukowski, |
“People who believe in politics are
like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“You have my soul and I have your
money”
- Charles Bukowski |
“Goodness can be found sometimes in
the middle of hell.”
- Charles Bukowski, |
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“What a woman wants is a reaction.
What a man wants is a woman.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“That was all a man needed: hope. It
was lack of hope that discouraged a man.”
- Charles Bukowski, |
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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.”
- Charles Bukowski |
“I thought you were sane," I
said, "but you're
just as crazy as the rest of them.” - Charles Bukowski |
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“Bad taste makes more millionaires
than good taste.”
- Charles Bukowski, |
“That's what friendship is, sharing
the prejudice of experience.”
- Charles Bukowski |
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“I pretend to understand because I
don't want anybody to be hurt”
- Charles Bukowski |
“Genius might be the ability to say a
profound thing in a simple way.”
- Charles Bukowski |
