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 BUKOWSKIWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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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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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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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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Without literature, life is hell.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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