We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDogs and angels are not very far apart.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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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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