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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWithout literature, life is hell.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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