It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDeath meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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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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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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