I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.
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
I'm only interested in poetry. - Charles Bukowski
I'm only interested in poetry.
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.
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.
Don’t do it. Don’t love me. - Charles Bukowski
Don’t do it. Don’t love me.
I hope that death contains less than this. - Charles Bukowski
I hope that death contains less than this.
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