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the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory
moving this little bit of light toward us
impossibly.

Charles Bukowski

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Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

Charles Bukowski

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

And i call god a liar, i say anything that moved like that or knew my name could never die in the common verity of dying.

Charles Bukowski

I had no interests. I had no interests in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn't let me.

Charles Bukowski

Ham On Rye

People wanted a loser who became a winner. Or a winner who became a loser. But a loser who stayed a loser? That was too much like themselves. They weren’t interested in themselves.

Charles Bukowski

More Notes of a Dirty Old Man

I was alone again, I always felt better being alone. When you’re alone, the only problem is yourself. It’s nicer that way. You stay out of trouble.

Charles Bukowski

Any person into living and creativity must discourage a certain number of visitors, if not most of them.

Charles Bukowski

To go someplace to work every day and to return. It was impossible. To do things, simple 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?

Charles Bukowski

I avoid the mirror with a studied regularity.

Charles Bukowski

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone With the Wind

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

Charles Bukowski

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

Joan Jett

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I didn't like parties. I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren't. They were bad at it.

Charles Bukowski

Hollywood

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Charles Bukowski

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the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.