QUOTES by Charles Bukowski
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"I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one."
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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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"She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be."
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"Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is."
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"...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back."
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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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"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."
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"She was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty"
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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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"What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability."
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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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"We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting"
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"My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world."
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"There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy"
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"You boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old."
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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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"I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare."
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"People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love."
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"I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love."
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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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"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
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"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."
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"Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that."
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"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."
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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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"Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."
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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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"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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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"
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"There are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late"
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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
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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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