Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.


Charles Bukowski

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you fall into the mirror,
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Christmas poem to a man in jail

hello Bill Abbott:
I appreciate your passing around ...
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and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.
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the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.
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I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around wai...
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.
JAMIE FOXX
Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
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Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and ...
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the best part was
pulling down the
shades
stuffing the doorbell
with rags
p...
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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
OVID
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as...
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If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in son...
DAN AUERBACH
You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax an...
STEVEN ERIKSON
I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made...
MICHAEL MORPURGO
GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
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A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
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A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
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during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
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Nëse një ditë më dëgjoni të flasë për dashuri, e yje... ju lutem, më vrisni!
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There's nothing unusual about love.
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My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.
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A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on
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It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But y...
TESSA DARE
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Envy! eldest-born of hell!
CHARLES JENNENS OF GOPSALL
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem beca...
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Too put a dollar down and bet a man his worth, don't confuse his eagerness with envy, he is simply c...
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A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE
nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Ne të gjithë jemi duke shkuar për të vdekur, të gjithë ne, çfarë cirku! Kjo vetë duhet të ...
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Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.
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I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full...
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Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
GROUCHO MARX
A man of risks, is a man of envy.
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
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It takes a real man to embrace and express his emotion, a weak man will hide behind his hard exterio...
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When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE
Never ignore a possible. ~Charles
KATHERINE RUNDELL
Do the little you can, when you can
SOTONYE ANGA
Do You think it matters if they're tiny or deep? he asked. Well, if they're not tiny breaths and the...
K.A. TUCKER
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. - Charles Hadden Spurge...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON
The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell.
ALEXANDER CHASE
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, ...
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Elf Envy...they all had it.
ORLANDO BLOOM
Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
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I've never seen anything like it. The man was flat on the ground with his hands behind his back. (Ba...
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It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
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There never was a France like the Madonna that Charles de Gaulle worships in the fresco of his imagi...
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Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, sho...
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Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin a...
ROBERT C. SHANNON
Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER
It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing...
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We think you are a total waste of human flesh. And you know what, Charles Cullen? God agrees with us...
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I would be honored just to be the pillow upon which this courageous man lays down to rest his head.
FRANK SINATRA
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
Never judge a man by his umbrella. It may not be his.
ANON.
I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru...
MATHIAS MALZIEU
You've made our lives a living hell.
CARMEN PROVIANO
This is a living hell for me.
MICHAEL THWAITE
What you do that gives you the greatest pleasure can also give you the greatest income
SOTONYE ANGA
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I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure a...
DONNA LYNN HOPE
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
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The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
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Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear t...
OSCAR WILDE
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are al...
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are al...
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A man who speaks negatively about another man behind his back is not only afraid of that man, but is...
RAHEEM ASKIA
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to wa...
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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