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Very Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- 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…
- Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around,…
- for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I…
- dogs and angels are not very far apart
- To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to…
- I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
- The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you…
- pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the…
- the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near…
- Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth…
- but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.
- 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".…
- of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily…
- 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…
- 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?…
- Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them…
- When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was…
- I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think…
- Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.
- I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice,…
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