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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.


Charles Bukowski

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I cried the first three days because I was giving them all these problems. I felt so bad.
ELSY RODRIGUEZ Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I felt like I was going to throw up. I just couldn't even see the ball because my eyes were burning ...
MICHAELLA KRAJICEK I remember the fans ... But I don't remember how I felt, because I was so excited.
CHAN HO PARK I never felt so good and played so bad.
DUANE STARKS On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was...
MARC FORSTER For the mile (1,600) I felt pretty good running the race like that. I was even more nervous for the ...
DANIELLE TAURO I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me s...
PATRICIA MCBRIDE I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They we...
MARY QUANT But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, ...
CLIFF CURTIS I felt bad breathing because it was completely silent.
ANDY HUDSPEATH So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level ...
DEYTH BANGER I couldn't get him because I couldn't breathe. It was felt like my lungs were on fire. I was trying ...
JOE HALE The reason I have felt so empty, so lost at times, is because you were missing.
FABIOLA FRANCISCO So she (James) got mad at me because she felt like I was treating her like a thief.
KELLY RYAN I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn ne...
J.D. SALINGER Yeah, it was so good. I was so-o-o mean to her before [in Hide and Seek ]. Man, I felt bad because I...
ELISABETH SHUE The transition was good compared to New York because the inner city schools were so jam-packed. I fe...
DEMETRIUS PORTER I kept waiting for Rod Steiger to come out of the closet because I felt like I was in the Twilight Z...
ROD SERLING Man, it felt good to play on Wednesday. I couldn't wait to get back out there. I felt like I was bac...
BRIAN TONER I wrote movies every week, that's what I did. It was about finding that moment that is so good, so r...
JOSS WHEDON I felt like I was throwing the ball good all game. ... I felt good the last 21/2 weeks of practice. ...
JARED ZABRANSKY I felt my opportunities were kind of limited, so to speak, and at times I kind of felt (like I was) ...
PLAXICO BURRESS I felt bad because I didn't have lunch for him.
HEIDI TILLBERG Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music...
AHMET ERTEGUN It was tough (to rebound). I felt like I had arm jewelry on the whole night. But I just ripped the b...
LAUREN JURIC I did it because I felt I was doing some good for the patients.
ELIE NAKOUZI It was terrifying because I kept expecting it to happen to me at any moment. But I felt fine and I d...
RASTE KHAN I credit them because they are fighters. Throughout the game, they felt like they were going to win.
GREG ELLIS When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not beca...
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I felt like I was cold because the hand had gone numb.
BEN WEBER I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I fe...
GARY CLARK They felt our site was very unique because the children were so involved in revitalizing downtown.
AMY BRASWELL I got so strong I felt like a giant, ... When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny co...
GARY PLAYER I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I fel...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER My finger felt really good. I took snaps for the first time and that was one of the things I was won...
JOE GERMAINE Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this...
WILL ARNETT I hated reunions. It made myself felt so little afterwards. When I was there, I couldn’t help not ...
MARCELLA PURNAMA Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn’t have many ...
JENNI SCHAEFER I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. I...
ALY RAISMAN I fell on Kevin's knee and my back hurt pretty bad. The trainer took me over to the side and we did ...
ANDRE WALKER I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jo...
SANDRA CISNEROS It just felt fluid and natural. I just was shooting, and it kept going in. And it kept falling, so I...
SEAN OGIRRI It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It...
JULIA ALLEN I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with ...
ERIC DICKERSON Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new...
AMY WINEHOUSE Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
CHARLES I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I If the King disregarded it, constitutional monarchy would cease to exist. The King is bound to accep...
CHARLES I By what lawful authority do you bring me to trial?
CHARLES I And therefore I tell you (and I pray God it be not laid to your charge) that I am the Martyr of the ...
CHARLES I I see all the birds are flown.
CHARLES I I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not enc...
MORLEY SAFER It felt like they were doing that all game. They kept clawing back in. They are a good team.
DRU JOYCE It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathart...
KOREN ZAILCKAS I knew something bad happened because I hit him pretty hard. I didn't know exactly what happened, th...
ANDRE BARRETT I knew we were down and that we needed some points in a hurry. I saw an opening, so I took a shot. I...
FREEMAN PERRY I felt good. I'm happy because I got a hit and was able to [score] on the hit. My knees and leg felt...
JOSE CASTILLO They were like sharks in bloody water out there, and we didn't have an answer. I feel bad for our wh...
DAVE WOJCIECHOWSKI We just kept fighting. I was real optimistic. I just felt like something good was going to happen to...
ZABIAN DOWDELL I felt so bad yesterday. Today I felt better, much more comfortable. You could see it in the practic...
IRINA SLUTSKAYA I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON We were uncomfortable with it from the beginning because we felt like we were, I guess our heart was...
DUSTIN KENSRUE I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to...
ALEX TIZON I felt better last year than I felt today. I didn't really feel it. I probably missed nine or 10 to ...
DAVID HADDAD I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I...
LOUISE BROWN I opened up the paper (last) Saturday morning and when I saw the (Proviso East) score I felt bad for...
STEVE ECKERT Watching those highlights I just started crying because it hurt so bad. I had to leave the room beca...
ERIN LIPPIE I think you need to gun for Oral Roberts not so much because they're playing in Tulsa but because th...
BILL EVANS We are playing good basketball right now. It's hard to not be part of it. I felt like I was playing ...
LAMAR HURD I'm so glad that race is over. I was really nervous before the race because I felt like I had someth...
AJ ACOSTA I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I fe...
DAKOTA JOHNSON I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
JACK VANCE That was so frustrating. I felt like I had let everyone down.
C.J. BELL I don't think I was hitting any hurdles, so that was good. And I felt fast.
ERIC MITCHUM I kept looking in his face and it was like nothing had ever happened. I felt real good about that be...
JUSTIN KING I had some real bad feelings. Every day since he's been there, I'd been praying for him because I fe...
JACOB MARCELLUS I felt bad for Zach because we left him so exposed. There were a lot of goals off rebounds and I thi...
NEIL ROBERTS Not to take anything away from Murrah, because they have a very good team, but we felt our experienc...
BRITTANY DAVIDSON It was amazing how good we were, ... I had forgotten how good we could be, because it had gotten so ...
CHARLIE WHITEHURST It's so ironic that I'll forever be associated with that time because I hated being a teenager, ... ...
CLAIRE DANES When I noticed other people, I wondered what it was like to be alive. They did not know, could not k...
JONATHAN ROTTENBERG As I was dribbling, I felt good so I took it and it went in.
CALVIN DANIELS SR I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, bu...
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grav...
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on our
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sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
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in the morning.
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with asses that forgo...
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but I'm too tough for him,
I say, sta...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I care for you, darling, I love you,
the only reason I fucked L. is because you fucked
Z. ...
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the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
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Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
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our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
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a space

and even ...
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Hemingway tes...
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do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
...
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that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI y la fama y el amor
nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI las palabras bonitas
como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this CHARLES BUKOWSKI your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was something about
that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had n...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
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live.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
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"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
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any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.

still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI