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.
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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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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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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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Only the boring get bored.
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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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