What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPeople run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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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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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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