Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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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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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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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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