Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIf you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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