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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Atheist Church Education Learning System Teaching
The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Crazy Laugh Reason
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alone Circus Die Each Other Eat Love
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Fuck Happiness Inspirational Love Wasted Time
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Celebration Drink Funny Humor Sarcastic
What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Ability Desire Hard Time Poverty Time
Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Deep Depression Hate
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Beauty Lucky People Ugly
I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Chance Whisky
Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Fog Love Reality
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Inspirational Start Try Work Hard
There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Destroy Save Woman
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alone Limitation Loneliness Necessary Real
Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Moments Poetry Worth Writing
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Cat Life Sleep Wait
In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alive Morning Positive

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

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