Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIShe’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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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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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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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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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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