We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you 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.
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