People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISlavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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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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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Only the boring get bored.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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