We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski 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.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski 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.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski 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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