Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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 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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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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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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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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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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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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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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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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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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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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 world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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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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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 don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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