Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKILove need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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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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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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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 never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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