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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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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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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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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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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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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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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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