But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly. Charles Bukowski
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin

  2. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Anonymous

  3. Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. - Mel Brooks

  4. Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

  5. Every talent must unfold itself in fighting. - Friedrich Nietzsche

More Quotes By Charles Bukowski
  1. My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will...

  2. Find what you love and let it kill you.

  3. I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

  4. Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more...

  5. Some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

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