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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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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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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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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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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