Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThings get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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 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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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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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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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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