I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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 difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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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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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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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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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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 still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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