“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”

—Charles Bukowski (love is a dog from hell, 1977)

“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired mutilated either by love or no love. People just are not good to each other one on one. The rich are not good to the rich, the poor are not good to the poor. We are afraid. Our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners. It hasn't told us about the gutters or the suicides. Or the terror of one person aching in one place alone untouched unspoken to watering a plant.”

—Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell.

“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.”

—Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell.

“Your letters got sadder. Your lovers betrayed you. I wrote back, all lovers betray. It didn't help. You said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.”

—Charles Bukowski

“One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid. ”

—Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?”

—Charles Bukowski 

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

—Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
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