She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIt wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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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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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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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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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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