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“I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're
just as crazy as the rest of them.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Love Is a Dog from Hell

Quelle: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I am too sick to lay down
the sidewalks frighten me
the whole damned city frightens me,
what I will become
what I have become
frightens me.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

Quelle: Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

“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.”

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The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)

“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.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Women

Quelle: Women

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”

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“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Women

Quelle: Women (1978)

“There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Love Is a Dog from Hell

Quelle: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”

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“my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”

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Charles Bukowski

“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Quelle: Notes of a Dirty Man (Zápisky starého prasáka)

“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.”

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“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Factotum

Quelle: Factotum (1975), Ch. 45, Manny

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”

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Quelle: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”

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Charles Bukowski

Quelle: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”

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Charles Bukowski buch Hot Water Music

Quelle: Hot Water Music

“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”

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Charles Bukowski buch The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Quelle: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”

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Quelle: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire