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I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. (Charles Bukowski)
Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die. View quote
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos. View quote
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It's so easy to be easy-if you let it. View quote
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun. View quote
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you. View quote
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Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane. View quote
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. View quote
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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. View quote
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Look, let me put it this way: with me, you're number one and there isn't even a number two. View quote
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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. (Charles Bukowski)
There still might be a place for us somewhere. View quote
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I was only photographing in words the reality of it all. View quote
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Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening. View quote
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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. View quote
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. View quote
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the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart. View quote
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats. View quote
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You have my soul and I have your money. View quote
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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. View quote
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What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman. (Charles Bukowski)
I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there. View quote
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I was in love again. I was in trouble. View quote
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It's when you hide things that you choke on them. View quote
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. View quote
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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski - Image
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Occupation: American Author
Born: August 16, 1920
Died: March 9, 1994
Quotes count: 564
Wikipedia: Charles Bukowski

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