Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDo you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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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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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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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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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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