An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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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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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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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 less I needed, the better I felt.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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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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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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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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