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Trying Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
- I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was…
- Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over…
- I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible---…
- If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods.…
- I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as…
- If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
- dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying on…
- 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".…
- not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
- The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.
- Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all…
- I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and…
- Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could…
- If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the…
- Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try…
- I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up.…
- Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.
- well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about…
- Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
- magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
- My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
- It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when…
More Trying Quotes
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- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash