To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIn my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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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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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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