To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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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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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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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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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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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.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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