There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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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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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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with 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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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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Beauty 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.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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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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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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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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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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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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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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