If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIf you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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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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