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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnything 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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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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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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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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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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I 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.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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