You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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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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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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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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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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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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