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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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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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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Sometimes 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.
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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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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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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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