Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISlavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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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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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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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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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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Without literature, life is hell.
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