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Time Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't…
- You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- Something that never happens anywhere at any time.
- And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
- I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.
- Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things…
- This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're…
- What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
- my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.
- I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to…
- She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her…
- this time has finished me.
- ..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long…
- There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.
- unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it.…
- 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…
- The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the…
- and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and…
- You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if…
- A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I…
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