We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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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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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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