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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

Charles Bukowski

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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Bloom Bother Disguise Life Rose Sun Wait
There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Destroy Save Woman
You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Play Sarcastic Steal Whisky Women
Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Death Kick Sex Sing
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Deep Die Hard Time Life Live Struggle
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Awake Color Finding Forget Love Morning Remember
Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Fog Love Reality
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Broken Heart God Life
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 BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Celebration Drink Funny Humor Sarcastic
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Drink Emotional Life Standard
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Democracy Difference Vote Wasted Time
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Crowd Direction Philosophy Run Wrong
I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Be Yourself Delusion Lucky Man Meet Self Love
What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Ability Desire Hard Time Poverty Time
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Crazy Horrible Humor Live People
I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Bed Morning Remember

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

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