Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKITo do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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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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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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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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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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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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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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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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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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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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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.
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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 matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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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 trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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