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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIt was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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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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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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