Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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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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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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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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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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