We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDrinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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