Charles Bukowski Quotes About Alcohol
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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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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.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
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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. 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.
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There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
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I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.
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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
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