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.
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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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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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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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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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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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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