Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIYou begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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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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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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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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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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