Charles Bukowski quotes - page 16

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. (Charles Bukowski)
the history of melancholia includes all of us. View quote
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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. View quote
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Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS. View quote
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stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover. View quote
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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. View quote
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That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man. View quote
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when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns. View quote
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can't sit still, move, or even go decently insane. View quote
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What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing. View quote
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in this room the hours of love still make shadows. (Charles Bukowski)
we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years. View quote
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be it peace or happiness let it enfold you. View quote
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I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was. View quote
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New Year's Eve always terrifies me. View quote
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life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle. View quote
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people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad. View quote
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That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience. View quote
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having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for. View quote
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I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night. View quote
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eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go. (Charles Bukowski)
there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no. View quote
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I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret. View quote
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they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is. View quote
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Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. View quote
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