To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKILove need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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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 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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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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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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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