Best Quotes by Charles Bukowski (Top 10)
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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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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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple 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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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.
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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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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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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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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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Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
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and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.
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Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.
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Are you becoming what you've always hated?
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Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
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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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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.
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Never get out of bed before noon.
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
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Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
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Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.
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