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Running Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
- Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
- I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the…
- I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.
- 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…
- There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so…
- Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to…
- all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.
- the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top…
- yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down…
- people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
- It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.
- little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little…
- like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.
- Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter,…
- 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…
- The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running…
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- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod