Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Only the boring get bored.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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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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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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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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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Anything 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.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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