I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.
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
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'm only interested in poetry. - Charles Bukowski
I'm only interested in poetry.
I hope that death contains less than this. - Charles Bukowski
I hope that death contains less than this.
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