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Quote by Charles Bukowski

“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”

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Charles Bukowski, born on August 16, 1920, was an influential American poet. Known for his unique style and profound depiction of the lives of the underclass in America, he is considered one of the representatives of the Beat Generation. more

“I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.”

Ifs Believe Humans Heart Children Stills Play Body Eye Wanted Voice Realizing Chance Dog Mountain Mercy Myth Drunk Dust Piano Scream Rats Fooled Hog Head And Heart

Author:Charles Bukowski

“life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -”

Should Pain Miracle Constant

Author:Charles Bukowski

“morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.”

People Pain Moving Life Is Joy Night Morning Knowing Fool Lovers Murder Warning Traffic Noon Treachery Lovers And Friends

Author:Charles Bukowski

“When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.”

Giving Kind Struggle Giving Up Kinds Of Love

Book:I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

“What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.”

Knows Wind Personality Bones Teeth Flames Flicker

Book:I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could”

People Motivational Gone Christian Inspirational Mentoring

Author:Zig Ziglar

“With soap, baptism is a good thing.”

Religion Atheism Good Things Atheist Soap Baptism Atheistic

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.”

World Long Ideas Law Order House Given Loss Rooms Mankind Creatures Supreme Absurd Cynical Supreme Being

Author:Peter De Vries

“Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.”

Reality Effort Obvious Deny Conceited

Author:H. L. Mencken

“When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?”

Grows Loses Growing Up

Author:Virginia Woolf

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