An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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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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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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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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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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