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Living Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
- The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
- 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…
- I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body,…
- ...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like…
- I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to…
- The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you…
- That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there…
- They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
- 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…
- Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
- there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.
- Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
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