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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”
“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”
“Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.”
“The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.”
“People don't do me much good.”
“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
“Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.”
“I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.”
“from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.”
“What's wrong with assholes, baby?”
“a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )”
“I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt”
“And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.”
“Are you becoming what you've always hated?”
“The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.”
“Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.”
“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?”