Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPoetry is what happens when nothing else can.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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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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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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We 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.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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