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He was always high on drugs. ...

He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

There's a bluebird in my heart...

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

That's the problem with drinki...

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.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Never trust a man in a jumpsui...

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

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For those who believe in God, ...

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

My ambition is handicapped by ...

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

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they say that nothing is waste...

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is

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The trouble with a mask is it ...

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

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This is very important -- to t...

This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I held her wrists and then I g...

I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

and now sometimes I'm intervie...

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,'look, look at this!' but they don't understand, they say something like,'you say you've been influenced by Celine?' no,' I hold the cat up,'by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

People with no morals often co...

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Even the stove and the refrige...

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.

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Human relationships didn't wor...

Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

It's better to do a dull thing...

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

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It was like the beginning of l...

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

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People who believe in politics...

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

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and then there are some who be...

and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

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Drinking is an emotional thing...

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

In my next life I want to be a...

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

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