I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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