I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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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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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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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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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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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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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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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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 went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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