I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
CHARLES BUKOWSKICan you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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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.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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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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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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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 wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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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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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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