Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWithout literature, life is hell.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the 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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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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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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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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 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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