Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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The 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.
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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.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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