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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISuccess is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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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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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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