The less I needed, the better I felt.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAre you becoming what you’ve always hated?
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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