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Got Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
- I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
- Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and…
- 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…
- In New York you've got to have all the luck.
- I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
- I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all…
- you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the…
- your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench…
- I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if…
- I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge…
- Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped…
- I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I…
- All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
- That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup…
- I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd…
- Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.
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