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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnything 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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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 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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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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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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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