The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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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.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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