You have to die a few times before you can really live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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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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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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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 wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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