Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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Only the boring get bored.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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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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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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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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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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