Charles Bukowski quotes - page 3

I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any. (Charles Bukowski)
animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along.
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I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
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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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I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
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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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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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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way.
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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. (Charles Bukowski)
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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That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
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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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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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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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I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
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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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so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another. (Charles Bukowski)
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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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 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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Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.
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