Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
CHARLES BUKOWSKINobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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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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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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