Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPeople run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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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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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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