Before my death I hope to obtain my life
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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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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