I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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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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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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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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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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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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