We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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