Charles Bukowski Short Quotes

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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

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"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.

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Sexual intercouse is kicking death in the ass while singing.

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Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

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My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

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The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

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Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.

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A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

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I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

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I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

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A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.

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The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

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It is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

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There's always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

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Mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

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I don't hate them.... I just feel better when they aren't around.

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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

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I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

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Something was always after a man. It never relented. No rest, ever.

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Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

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If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

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Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

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We've died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.

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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

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Bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

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Some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

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