like Bukowski

I want to live and breathe and think like Bukowski.

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” ✅

“Do you hate people?”
“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”  ✅

“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.” ✅

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire” ✅

“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.” ✅

“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.” (work in progress)

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness” ✅

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”  ✅

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ✅ (In case you weren't aware, I'm the former)

“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.” ✅

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.” ✅

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” ( working on it.)

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”  ✅

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.” ✅


Shouldn't everyone?

I could go on. He's my favorite. Favorite is so trivial. He speaks to my soul.