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“Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Women

Quelle: Women

“I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have.”

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Quelle: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.”

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Quelle: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

“Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,
“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.
“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”
“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River
of pain.” “You drunk?” “Not yet.”

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“There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You’re always ripe and ready to be taken.”

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“That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Ham on Rye

Quelle: Ham on Rye

“peace of mind and heart
arrives
when we accept what is:
having been
born into this
strange life
we must accept
the wasted gamble of our
days
and take some satisfaction in
the pleasure of
leaving it all
behind.”

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Quelle: The Pleasures of the Damned

“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.”

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Quelle: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“If you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Hot Water Music

Quelle: Hot Water Music

“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”

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Variante: Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Quelle: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

“the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”

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Variante: the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.
Quelle: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

“how can you be true and
kind at the same
time?

how?”

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Charles Bukowski buch Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Quelle: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

“it's good to have things done with
when they don't work
it's also good not to hate
or even forget
the person you've failed with.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Quelle: Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

“They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”

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“I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.”

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