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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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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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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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 tigers have found me and I do not care.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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