What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBeauty 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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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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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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Only the boring get bored.
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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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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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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