Dedicated to Henry Charles Bukowski

"beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know"

Charles Bukowski

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"My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."

Charles Bukowski

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"Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren’t sure of was if we had any."

Charles Bukowski (women)

(Source: paranoos)

— 3 months ago with 200 notes

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"Man, man, it’s a funny world,” he said. “We’ve got everything, but we can’t have it."

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

(Source: henrycharlesbukowski)

— 4 months ago with 246 notes

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"Where there is a crowd, run the other way and you’ll be right."

Charles Bukowski

— 4 months ago with 598 notes

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"Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life."

Charles Bukowski

— 4 months ago with 360 notes

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cl4vicles:

human spirit by pauldear on Flickr.

— 4 months ago with 161 notes

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"I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables."

Bukowski, Pulp. (via various-vacuousventings)

(Source: artfullyawkward)

— 4 months ago with 500 notes

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"I went to the worst of bars
hoping to get
killed.
but all I could do was to
get drunk
again."

Charles Bukowski, The Suicide Kid (via uuer)

— 5 months ago with 414 notes

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"dismiss perfection as an ache of the
greedy
but do not give in to the mass modesty of
easy imperfection."

Charles Bukowski

— 5 months ago with 163 notes

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