Without literature, life is hell.
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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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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