To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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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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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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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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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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