To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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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 begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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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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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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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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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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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