Charles Bukowski quotes - page 8

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being. (Charles Bukowski)
To create art means to be crazy alone forever. View quote
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If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains. View quote
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I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love. View quote
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as the spirit wanes the form appears. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell. View quote
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend. View quote
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too often, the only escape is sleep. View quote
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True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion. (Charles Bukowski)
Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink. View quote
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Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It's awful. Goodnight. View quote
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Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love. View quote
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. View quote
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. View quote
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Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned. View quote
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love. View quote
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But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself. View quote
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When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change. View quote
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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. (Charles Bukowski)
Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die. View quote
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell. View quote
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Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that. View quote
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. View quote
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