People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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