Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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