Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

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"she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).all you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"the best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefrigeratorand going to bedfor 3 or 4days. and the next bestpartwasnobody evermissedme."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"I remember yoursaying: "make itor break it."neither happened anditwon't."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"It got so bad that Al thoughtmaybe it washimso he went to a shrinkand askedand the shrink said,"you're one of the sanest menI've ever met."poor Al.that made him feelworse than ever."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"the courage it took to get out of bed eachmorningto face the same thingsover and overwasenormous."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a goodback rub"

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate when nothing ispromisednow young girls weep alone in small roomsold men angrily swing their canes atvisions asladies comb their hair asants search for survivalhistory surrounds usand our livesslink awayinshame."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we arean unwantedburningas we sizzle and fryto the bonethe coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneathus andabove the sky is an open hand andthe words of wise men are uselessit's not a nice world, a nice world it's not ..."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut"

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"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

"there’s nothing todiscussthere’s nothing torememberthere’s nothing toforgetit’s sadand it’s notsadseems themost sensiblethinga person can doissitwith drink inhandas the wallswavetheir goodbyesmilesone comes throughit allwith a certain amount ofefficiency andbraverythenleavessome acceptthe possibility ofGodto help themgetthroughotherstake itstaight onand to theseI drink tonight."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts - somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.attrition rules.most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.and nowas we ready to self-destructthere is very little left tokillwhich makes the tragedyless and moremuch muchmore."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

"sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in."

Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense