If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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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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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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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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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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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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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 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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