It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIMy beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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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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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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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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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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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 lie as truthfully as I can.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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