What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDo you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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