Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat. Charles Bukowski
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More Quotes By Charles Bukowski
  1. My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will...

  2. Find what you love and let it kill you.

  3. I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

  4. Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more...

  5. Some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

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