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 BUKOWSKIWe must bring our own light to the darkness.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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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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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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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 don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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