We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnimals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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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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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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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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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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