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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
“it's better to be happy...if you can..!!”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
Source: Women
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
“If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
Source: Ham On Rye
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.”
“The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.”
“To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”
Source: On Cats
“If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.”
“If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.”