Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISuccess is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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