“The Little Things Eat Us Alive”

Charles Bukowski on priorities and life routine.

“We will all die sooner or later, each of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but no. We are horrified and crushed by trifles, we are eaten alive by trifles. Charles Bukowski*

* Charles Bukowski “The Captain is Out to Lunch” (Ecco, 1998).

Charles Bukowski (Charles Bukowski, 1920–1994) was an American poet, novelist, and journalist. Author of over 200 short stories and six novels.

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