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 BUKOWSKIAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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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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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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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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