In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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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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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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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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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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