I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPeople run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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