The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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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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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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