it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
or that the hummingbird is so seldom
seen
or that we are too senseless to go
insane.
coffee. give us more of that NOTHING
coffee.
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Just ...
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"It's three thirty in the morning."
"Okay. Wa...
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Rather burst than
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the more you'll find
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and on...
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some of us rhyme. some don’t.
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som...
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caught a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I HOLD
If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.
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Carrie: I'm good. How are you?
Charlotte: Great.
Carrie: I to...
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Give us a story
Narrate all the places
That we’ll never see
Give us a...
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Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:
...
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That life can give to anyone
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When things will seem out of your hands ?
When ...
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laying around the lawn
on our
bellies
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To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON I had an accident."
"That seemes to happen a lot."
"It wasn't my fault."
...
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Big as a giant,
We're all the same size
W...
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Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle repli...
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...
Please tell this people after few more words that you are...
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He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,...
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PATRICIA BRIGGS Faith is not to believe
Or pray that Providence
Will help a chieve
Anything we wan...
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It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no re...
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DR. KARAN M PAI Healing is not healed.
Numbed is not healed.
Healing takes time.
Healing takes patien...
DAVE RUDBARG If You Forget Me
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
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Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
in...
MARY OLIVER What the hell makes you smart?" I asked.
"I wouldn't go for coffee with you."
"Listen - I ...
ERICH SEGAL Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing...
DAVE MATTHEWS you are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highw...
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I am rereading Hart Crane.
I notice the date<...
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That, for all ...
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God's everlasting fiery jails
(Devised by rogues, d...
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loud sobs that soak your pillow
that kind that come at the end
of ...
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...
Please tell this people after few more words you are goin...
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No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart
Too muc...
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are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
a...
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we’d all turn thief
and rascal, or so says the fox,
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and lied to us twice
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about love
or about pain
that even
...
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that you were his princess
you won't see the castle
you ...
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The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
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Time goes by, time comes along,
All is old and all is new;
What is righ...
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With life at home, and suddenly returns,
F...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS The dead do not need
aspirin or
sorrow,
I suppose.
but they might need
rain...
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across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stan...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The Doors
The End
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my ...
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When two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the
yearning to be close to ...
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Now Lucy with her family of dolls
Disfigures Mother with a...
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the strong, bitter taste
of morning coffee,
the ticki...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR I write poetry, worry, smile,
laugh
sleep
continue for a while
just like most of...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI For me,
you are fresh water
that falls from trees
when it has stopped raining. For me...
KAMAND KOJOURI Everywhere, Everywhere"
amazing, how grimly we hold onto our
misery,
ever defen...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Is it too bold to point out
that there is nothing in the ten commandments
about protectin...
A.J. BEIRENS The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may...
T.S. ELIOT 7am
They said that I’d forget you,
and I knew it wasn’t true.
But sometimes...
COCO J. GINGER You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather
than
an asset - that in view ...
MARIANNE MOORE The Son of God perishes that we may not perish.
He rises that we may rise.
Tha...
DAVID HOLDSWORTH who are you
really?
you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K Am I not allowed to speak in hyperbole?"
"Only," he said, a bit too smoothly, "if you are...
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You want to cry aloud for your
mistakes....
MARY OLIVER TO ALL MANKIND
Speak kind words
to mankind
and the unkind
will attack you....
SUZY KASSEM And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
K...
DR. SEUSS As for life,
I'm humbled,
I'm without words
sufficient to say
how it has b...
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the thing
that happens
to us
while we’re off
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Do you hate people?”
“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
CHARLES BUKOWSKI animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
grav...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Find what you love and let it kill you.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it clin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politic...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sigh...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, in...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, c...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Never get out of bed before noon
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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on our
bellies
we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The telephone is needed for
Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies,...
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and are not easy to fool...
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week, telling me to...
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but I'm too tough for him,
I say, sta...
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the only reason I fucked L. is because you fucked
Z. ...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call art.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI people diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. T...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
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our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What a pitiful mass of dangerous nothing
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
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will never be filled
a space
and even ...
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your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to...
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and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will...
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Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway tes...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI dogs and angels are not
very far apart
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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.
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
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A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You women have more holes than swiss cheese.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm becoming softer and softer.
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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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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live.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.
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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...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. Th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are worse things than being alone,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
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...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
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