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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”
“Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.”
“But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.”
“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”
“That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.”
“All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.”
“It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.”
“It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.”
“It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”
“I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.”
“You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.”
“They were beautiful nothings”
“Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.”
“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
“the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.”
“Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.”
“and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.”
“i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms”
“I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.”
“How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”