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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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