Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.
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
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it. - Charles Bukowski
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
the history of melancholia includes all of us. - Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us.
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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