I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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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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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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