Life’s as kind as you let it be.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe less I needed, the better I felt.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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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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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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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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 was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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