The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPeople are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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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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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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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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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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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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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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