I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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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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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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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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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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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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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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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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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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