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 BUKOWSKIBaby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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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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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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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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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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