Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPoetry is what happens when nothing else can.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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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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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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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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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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