I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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