Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISometimes 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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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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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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