There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIn my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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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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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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 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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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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