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 BUKOWSKIThere is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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