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Understand Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
- 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…
- 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…
- beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is…
- I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I…
- 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.…
- the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want…
- the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they…
- To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit…
- I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt
- I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had…
- People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
- 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.…
- I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
- they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
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