“Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?” — Charles Bukowski, Hollywood
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“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” — Charles Bukowski, “Too Sensitive”, Tales of Ordinary Madness
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“You have to die a few times before you can really live.” — Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” — Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” — Charles Bukowski, Some People
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“Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.” — Charles Bukowski, Letter to Anthony Linick (1959)
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“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.” — Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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“If I’m an ass, I should say so. If I don’t, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.” — Charles Bukowski, Interview with Robert Wennersten
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“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.” — Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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“To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.” — Charles Bukowski, Letter to John Martin, 12 August 1986
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