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“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Soul #Ordinary #World
“Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#War #Dying
“Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Brother
“If you want to create, you'll create...”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Want
“I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Spiritual #Hurt #Giving Up
“unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Suicide #Soul #Burning
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Trying #Way
“there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Heart #Space #Waiting
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Sadness #Thinking #Sick
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Drinking #Beer #Order
“Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Hell #Bother
“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Sex #Women #Want
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Life #Odds #Laughing
“They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Alive #Pay #Back To Work
“Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Beautiful #Writing #Giving
“My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Games
“Our disappointment sits between us.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Disappointment
“I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Morning #Inspirational Love #Coffee
“nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#War #Winning #Saving
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Morning #Positivity #Thinking
“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Sometimes
“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Girl #Dream #Nightmare
“Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Wall #Writing #Waiting
“It began as a mistake.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Mistake
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Inspirational
“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Two #Littles #Too Much
“You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Running #One Direction #Forgiving
“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Tree #Soul #World
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Motivational #I Hate You #Fire
“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
-- Charles Bukowski

#Inspirational #Feel Good #Soul

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