To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBeing alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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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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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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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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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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