Without literature, life is hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIReal loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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