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Hard Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or…
- People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them…
- I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was…
- I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard…
- American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and…
- They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail,…
- young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
- I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and…
- 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…
- It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and…
- A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I…
- Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them…
- It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.
- Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
- Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was…
- Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.
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