“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 to take us.” ~Charles Bukowski, Life Magazine Interview, 1988
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“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn’t dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren’t thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.” ~ Charles Bukowski, Women
“I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.” ~ Charles Bukowski
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“If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.” ~ Charles Bukowski, Notes of Dirty Old Man
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“Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.” ~ Charles Bukowski
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“Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance.” ~ Charles Bukowski, Barfly
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