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Say Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
- I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which…
- If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
- People do too much. They say too much.
- There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going…
- they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is
- and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed…
- there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's…
- ...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
- sometimes there's nothing to say about death.
- I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and…
- Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how…
- 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…
- Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can…
- I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your…
- 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?…
- I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a…
- Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true;…
- It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and…
- And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye…
- I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends…
- I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to…
- there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me?…
- Tough. Tough, indeed. I would say that Mickey Mouse had a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovich, Lenin, and/or…
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