What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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