Charles Bukowski Quotes

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  Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Life And Love

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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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Faith, Confidence, Stupid

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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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ordinary World, Soul, Dimensions

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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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Anger, People

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• If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Soul, Desire

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• If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

  Charles Bukowski

  Trying, Way, Valuable Life

  "Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Crowds, Always Wrong

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• Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

  Charles Bukowski

  Nice, Fighting, Names

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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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Trust, Order, Differences

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.190, City Lights Books

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• The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hell, Things To Do, Ifs

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• Find what you love and let it kill you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  "Did Charles Bukowski Really Say, 'Find What You Love and Let it Kill You?'" by Jef Rouner, www.houstonpress.com. July 16, 2013.

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• what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

  Charles Bukowski

  Motivational, Uplifting, I Hate You

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.505, Canongate Books

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• You have to die a few times before you can really live.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Feel Good, Soul

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

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• Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Crazy, People

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• Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

  Charles Bukowski

  Artist, Simple, Way

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• The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

  Charles Bukowski

  Gathering, Crowds, Creation

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thinking, People, Injustice

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• There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

  Charles Bukowski

  Two, Littles, Too Much

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.202, City Lights Books

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• Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Thought Provoking, Genius

  "Notes of a Dirty Old Man".

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• An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Simple, Men

  Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.240, City Lights Books

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• Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Lucky, Ugly

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.1, City Lights Books

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• Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hate, People, Giving

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• I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

  Charles Bukowski

  School, Eye, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Death, Novelists

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

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