If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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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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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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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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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
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