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Often Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
- People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them…
- People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
- 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…
- for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I…
- it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace…
- I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
- 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…
- I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I…
- I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
- The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there…
- You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there…
- and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and…
- 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…
- Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away…
- I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often…
- When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have…
- I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had…
- Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against…
- I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by…
- I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up.…
- I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.
- too often, the only escape is sleep
- I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day…
- I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
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