It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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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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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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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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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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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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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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