Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe trouble with a mask is it never changes.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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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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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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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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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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