I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIYou have to die a few times before you can really live.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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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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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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