Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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