Without literature, life is hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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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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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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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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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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