We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKITo do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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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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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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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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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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