We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWithout literature, life is hell.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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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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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Only the boring get bored.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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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 went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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