You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAny asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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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 never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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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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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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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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