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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnimals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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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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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten 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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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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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 loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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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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Without literature, life is hell.
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