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 BUKOWSKIThere are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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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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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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Only the boring get bored.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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