"dogs and angels are not very far apart"
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Charles Bukowski quotes (page 20 of 41)
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"I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic."
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"Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with."
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"In New York you've got to have all the luck."
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"writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all"
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"It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took."
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"Don’t do it. Don’t love me."
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"she’s mad, but she’s magic."
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"love iz a big fat turkey and every day iz thanksgiving"
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"We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create."
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"News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens."
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"There is light somewhere."
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"Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love."
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"it's better to be happy...if you can..!!"
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"great books are the ones we need"
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"Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that."
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"2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die."
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"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 craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price."
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"What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do?" "Catch butterflies"
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"I hope that death contains less than this."
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