Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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 shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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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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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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