{"quotes":[{"text":"As long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).All you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.Somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["alone","bukowski","death","force","human-beings","humanity","life","lonely","love","misery","nobody","peace","poem","poetry","society","soul","war"],"id":610,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["age","bukowski","lonely"],"id":1878,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"I remember yoursaying: 'make itor break it.'neither happened anditwon't.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["bukowski","poetry"],"id":5860,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"She slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["alone","bukowski","complete","happiness","happy","inspiration","life","loneliness","lonely","loss","love","poem","poetry","self"],"id":12027,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["bukowski","love","slugs","women"],"id":13967,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["bukowski","charles-bukowski","self-love"],"id":17732,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created hate we had a standard utility when God created me He created me when God created the monkey He was asleep when He created the giraffe He was drunk when He created narcotics He was high and when He created suicide He was low when He created you lying in bed He knew what He was doing He was drunk and He was high and He created the mountains and the sea and fire at the same time He made some mistakes but when He created you lying in bed He came all over His Blessed Universe.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["bukowski","humor","passion","women"],"id":28771,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["bukowski","salvation","writing"],"id":32751,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.All our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts - somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.Attrition rules.Most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.And nowas we ready to self-destructthere is very little left tokillwhich makes the tragedyless and moremuch muchmore.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["alone","bukowski","darkness","death","destruction","disaster","emptiness","empty-spaces","humanity","kill","loneliness","lonely","poem","poetry","self","self-destruction","tragedy","tragic"],"id":49231,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["bukowski","hate","people"],"id":50971,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}