It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
Charles Bukowski
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.
SOPHIE KINSELLA It’s easy to stay on track, If you choose to never quit.
LORI R TAYLOR Sometimes all you need is to be remembered, especially in a place where it’s so easy to forget.
EMORY R. FRIE I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.
MARISHA PESSL It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with yo...
SKIP CORYELL You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.
DAN PEARCE Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.
DANIEL KEYES Ahh, love, why is it so easy to let you in, but so difficult to let you out? Why couldn’t you subs...
PAWAN MISHRA For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.
LADY GAGA My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
ALEX PETTYFER "she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI you fall into the mirror,
come through the other
side
staring at a lightbulb.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a pro does as well as he can within what
he has set out to do
and a madman
does excep...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Christmas poem to a man in jail
hello Bill Abbott:
I appreciate your passing around ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around wai...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some l...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Don't be easy to define. Let them wonder about you.
MOOSA RAHAT Just this once, let it be easy.
CYNTHIA LORD It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself
SARAH DESSEN If you don't have any attacks, it's easy to let the program slip.
JON ARNOLD You want every shot he takes to be contested over a hand, and you don't want to let him get anything...
WES MILLER It’s hard to ride the wind of change. It’s not easy to navigate against the winds, but it can be...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Success was not designed to be easy. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
LILY CHATTERJEE Don't worry, don't panic.
MONIKA JOANNA ORAWIEC Freedom? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Happiness? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Re...
RYAN HOLIDAY It's not an easy thing to be let go.
ALICE BARRETT It's easy to let Oprah do it for them.
OPRAH WINFREY The killer .... is making it too easy... - Naaah, not possible... to be so easy!
DEYTH BANGER Follow your dreams. I am not saying it’s going to be easy, but I am saying it’s going to be wort...
MOFFAT MACHINGURA If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is so easy to have in your hands. It is so easy to feel security from it. It is so easy in ways t...
IAN PHILPOT Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothi...
TIM KREIDER It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass t...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
MORRISSEY If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’...
T. HARV EKER (Wrestling) teaches you nothing comes easy. Nothing in life comes easy, so you have to work at it.
MIKE SULLIVAN It’s easy to give up,
It’s hard to fight,
A gentle soft kiss makes you feel delight.
BAJRANG SULTANIA If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.
MIKE DITKA I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It’s that easy.
NEIL GAIMAN It's not an easy thing to be let go.
ALICE BARRETT The point of being good is doing it when it’s tough, not when it’s easy.
SALLY GREEN If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.
LAINI TAYLOR It is easy to expend love, not so easy to expect it.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON It’s not easy remembering the good times.
CECELIA AHERN You never see no "to let" signs on Easy Street
KIN HUBBARD When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.
NORA ROBERTS If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.
LEO FENDER the best part was
pulling down the
shades
stuffing the doorbell
with rags
p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.
COLLEEN HOOVER How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.
CARL WILLIAM BROWN Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that whi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'...
LOUIS SACHAR It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.
ROSE ELIZABETH BIRD If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS... Sometimes it's hard for you to let go the ones you love...But the ones you love find it easy to let ...
FLAMESTARTA It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
L. M. MONTGOMERY It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
L M MONTGOMERY It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you",scoffed Opal.
EOIN COLFER Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it...
...
DAVID EDDINGS If he/she is easy for you, he/she most likey have or will be easy for someone else.
TREVON CLARK Easy is right. Begin right, and you will be easy. Continue easy and you are right... The right way t...
CHUANG TZU To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.
IRA WINKLER It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
FRANK O'HARA Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.
THE WONDER YEARS If living was easy, then so true would be said for dying
TODD M ARELLANES If it’s history, let it be history.
BEN TOLOSA Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?"
"So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am se...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won...
BOB MARLEY If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won...
BOB MARLEY Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away.
MAZ NO PARADISE How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
GERHARD KOCHER The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
WILLIE AAMES If life were easy, then it would be boring.
CHARLES BECK Life would be a breeze if easy does it.
ANDONI GARCIA If it were easy it would not be any fun.
T JAY TAYLOR You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. I...
DEYTH BANGER Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline...It's easy. Incredibly easy.
TAMMARA WEBBER It is easy to hold on, but it is difficult to let it go.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I’m Busy as Hell not making any Money. It’s easy to be busy,
the key is to be busy making money.
ROSS ELDER It is easy to forget when you borrow money but easy to remember when you lend it.
VIKRANT PARSAI It’s easy to be brave when
everything is going your way.
When the going gets tough,
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.
MARYROSE WOOD It's not easy, but do it anyway
It's not easy to love,
when you get resentment in re...
HENNA SOHAIL It's not easy, but do it anyway
It's not easy to love,
when you get resentment in re...
HENNA SOHAIL It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved...
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but belief is a
grav...
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it clin...
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cigarettes
at
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give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgo...
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Emergency purposes only
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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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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I care for you, darling, I love you,
the only reason I fucked L. is because you fucked
Z. ...
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the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
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our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
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a space
and even ...
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your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to...
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Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway tes...
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do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
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they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
...
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that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
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To do...
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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...
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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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live.
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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.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
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for...
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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