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 BUKOWSKISome lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Only the boring get bored.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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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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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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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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