Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or no artistry; everything sucked you into some spiderweb. I disdained the use of the needle for the same reason that I disdained some so-called beautiful women - the price was far beyond the measure of the worth. I didn't want to hustle that hard.
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.
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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