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World Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
- I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.
- Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things…
- my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
- I wanted the whole world or nothing.
- there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
- I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that…
- the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the…
- The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you…
- 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…
- Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is…
- There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so…
- beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is…
- my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
- This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something.…
- Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can…
- When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
- The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
- The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.
- Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could…
- 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…
- I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little…
- Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars.…
- The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a…
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