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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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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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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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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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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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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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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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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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