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Lying Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,…
- when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy…
- Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all…
- But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie…
- ‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
- Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
- So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
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