When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. - Charles Bukowski
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
- Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us. - Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us.
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it. - Charles Bukowski
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
nobody ever finds the one - Charles Bukowski
nobody ever finds the one
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. - Charles Bukowski
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
I'm only interested in poetry. - Charles Bukowski
I'm only interested in poetry.
Don’t do it. Don’t love me. - Charles Bukowski
Don’t do it. Don’t love me.
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. - Charles Bukowski
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
I hope that death contains less than this. - Charles Bukowski
I hope that death contains less than this.
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