Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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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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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Only the boring get bored.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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