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Love Is a Dog from Hell
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"Love Is a Dog from Hell" Quotes

A collection of raw and gritty poems exploring the pain and chaos of love.

Quotes

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

Charles Bukowski

lifedeath

I wasn't lonely. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the center of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world. They are lonely because they are afraid to make contact with people around them.

Charles Bukowski

lonelinessfear

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

Charles Bukowski

lifeexistentialism

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

artstyle

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

Charles Bukowski

peoplesolitude

What's the difference between a whore and a bitch? A whore sleeps with everyone at the party, and a bitch sleeps with everyone at the party except you.

Charles Bukowski

sexrelationships

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Charles Bukowski

prisonhumor

I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time.

Charles Bukowski

painhealing

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Charles Bukowski

passionsacrifice

I'm not a misanthrope, I like people, but I like them in short doses. I'm okay with being alone.

Charles Bukowski

peoplesolitude