I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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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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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Only the boring get bored.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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