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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
“Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.”
“WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.”
“Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.”
“There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.”
“Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.”
“Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.”
“It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.”
“A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.”
“If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.”
“Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.”
“People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”
“Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.”
“You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.”
“The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.”
“There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.”
“The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.”
“There's music in everything, even defeat”
“Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.”
“I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.”