The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIYou have to die a few times before you can really live.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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Without literature, life is hell.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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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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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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