We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIReal loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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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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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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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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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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