The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWithout literature, life is hell.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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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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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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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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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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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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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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