If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnything 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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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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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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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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