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 BUKOWSKII don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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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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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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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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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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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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