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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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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 wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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