My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWithout literature, life is hell.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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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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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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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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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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