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Somebody Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
- We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti
- Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's…
- Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't…
- I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if…
- My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to…
- Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try".…
- This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something.…
- All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
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