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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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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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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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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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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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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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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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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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