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From Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and…
- Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks,…
- I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to…
- Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
- Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
- Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.
- The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out,…
- Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
- …He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days,…
- there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy
- whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly…
- I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I…
- A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
- it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace…
- it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.
- I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
- They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where…
- beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is…
- i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat,…
- escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll…
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