We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBaby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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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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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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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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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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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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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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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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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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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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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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