Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIn the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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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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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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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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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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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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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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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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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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Only the boring get bored.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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