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Charles Bukowski Quotes: If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.
         

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.


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Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.



The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.




People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.



Find what you love and let it kill you.

Find what you love and let it kill you.



If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.



Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.



Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.



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

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



I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.





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Theatre is pure teleportation by means of suspension. It’s a voyage into the archives of the human imagination. A passport to all what ifs.



Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.



Arvex led the others into the light. “Wrecked if I ever dash miners again! This is one royal who won’t wipe their boots on our cousins anymore.” His grin made the carnage seem trivial.

Arvex led the others into the light. “Wrecked if I ever dash miners again! This is one royal who won’t wipe their boots on our cousins anymore.” His grin made the carnage seem trivial.



If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.



Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.



We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.



God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.

God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.



Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.



All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.




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