We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAny asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Only the boring get bored.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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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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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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