Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThat’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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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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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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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