Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDrinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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That’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.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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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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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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