Charles Bukowski Quotes

there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingto let anybody see you....I only let him outat night sometimeswhen everybody's asleep....he's singing a littlein there, I haven't quite let himdie...and it's nice enough tomake a manweep, but I don'tweep,doyou?

Charles Bukowski

• Heart
• Night
• Nice
• Singing

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• I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

  

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• Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.

  

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• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

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• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

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• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  

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• I was physically abused and I retaliated.

  

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• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

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• The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

  

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• I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

  

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• The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

  

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• There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

  

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• there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingto let anybody see you....I only let him outat night sometimeswhen everybody's asleep....he's singing a littlein there, I haven't quite let himdie...and it's nice enough tomake a manweep, but I don'tweep,doyou?

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Nice