I wanted the whole world or nothing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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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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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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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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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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Only the boring get bored.
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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