The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIGreat art is horseshit, buy tacos.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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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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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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