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Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles.

Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

Charles Bukowski
Nice, Fighting, Names

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.

Charles Bukowski
Laughter, Fighting, Night
"Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

Charles Bukowski
Beautiful, Being Alone, Fighting
Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

Charles Bukowski
Fighting, Simple, Want
Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.11, Harper Collins

I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it kept the heart alive.

Charles Bukowski
Wall, Heart, Fighting

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

Charles Bukowski
Fighting, Minutes
Charles Bukowski (2009). “The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems”, p.43, Harper Collins

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski
Fighting, Trying, Alive

We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.

Charles Bukowski
Fighting, Men, Fire
Source: bukowski.net

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

Charles Bukowski
Beautiful, Fighting, Promise
Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

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