1. “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”  — Charles Bukowski

    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.” 

    — Charles Bukowski

  2. “I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.” — Charles Bukowski

    “I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.”

    — Charles Bukowski

  3. “I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.” — Charles Bukowski

    “I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”
    — Charles Bukowski

  4. “…in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.” — Charles Bukowski

    “…in that drunken place

    you would like to hand your heart to her

    and say

    touch it

    but then give it back.”

    — Charles Bukowski

  5. “You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” — Charles Bukowski

    “You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

    — Charles Bukowski

  6. “I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.” — Charles Bukowski

    “I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”

    — Charles Bukowski

  7. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery—isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.” — Charles Bukowski

    “If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery—isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”

    — Charles Bukowski

  8. “It’s better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.” — Charles Bukowski

    “It’s better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.”

    — Charles Bukowski

  9. “…in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.” — Charles Bukowski

    “…in that drunken place

    you would like to hand your heart to her and say

    touch it

    but then give it back.”

    — Charles Bukowski

  10. “Writer’s were supposed to be a little crazy” — S.E. Hinton

    “Writer’s were supposed to be a little crazy”

    — S.E. Hinton

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