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Firsts Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't…
- There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready…
- Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a…
- If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
- I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was…
- People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to…
- Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people…
- love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
- Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth…
- First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
- That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion…
- And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
- The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a…
- Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
- If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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