What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBefore my death I hope to obtain my life
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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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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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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