The less I needed, the better I felt.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThat’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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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Only the boring get bored.
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