Without literature, life is hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIMy beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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That’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.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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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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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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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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