I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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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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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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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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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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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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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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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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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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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