QUOTES by Charles Bukowski
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"It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you."
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"The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them"
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"I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me."
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"It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it."
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"It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there."
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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. To sit around licking my ass."
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"Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass."
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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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"And then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive"
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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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"To fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs."
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"Whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?"
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"Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it."
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"He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."
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"I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself."
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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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"Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers."
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"In this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck"
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"I said goodbye again sucking up all that was left of her into the little that was left of me. I said, 'don't look for me again. fuck it. we are all lost. goodbye, goodbye."
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"I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard."
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"The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better."
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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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"If you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete."
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"She is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?"
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"Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face."
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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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"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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"Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so."
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"You son of a bitch, she said, I am trying to build a meaningful relationship. you can't build it with a hammer, he said."
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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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"I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready."
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"And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep."
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