“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Variant: You have to die a few times before you actually live.
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the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked miles through the city and recognized nothing as a giant claw ate at my stomach while the inside of my head felt airy as if I was about to go mad. it’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing, there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust. —from "fingernails; nostrils; shoelaces"
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“we only asked for leopards to guard
our thinning dreams.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“we had such tremendous fun
and much agony together
for some years”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“I am a series of small victories and large defeats.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“dogs and angels are not
very far apart”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“There's nothing unusual about love.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Variant: sometimes there's nothing to say
about
death.
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“there is moss on the walls
and the stain of thought and failure and
waiting”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“I have loved you woman
as surely as I have named you
rust and sand and nylon.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“The wisdom to quit is all we have left.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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