Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDeath meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Only the boring get bored.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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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 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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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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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