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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKILove is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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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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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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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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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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Only the boring get bored.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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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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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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