Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDeath meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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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 are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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