If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIn the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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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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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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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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