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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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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 still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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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.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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I 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.
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