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Said Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said…
- Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around,…
- Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
- 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'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
- I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.
- sometimes I hate you," she said.
- After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,…
- He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
- 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…
- but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.
- 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…
- Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said?…
- And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
- I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.
- When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was…
- The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
- Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
- he asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off…
- I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast…
- i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
- 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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