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Charles Bukowski: top 200 quotes
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Success (n.) is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
Boredom (n.) is only for the boring.
Voting (n.) is crucial in both a democracy and a dictatorship, the difference being that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
The Crowd (n.) is always wrong. Wisdom is doing everything it does not do.
The Crowd (n.) is always wrong. Wherever it goes, run in the other direction.
The Crowd (n.) is the gathering place of the weakest.
Love (n.) is possible if you don't know the person too well.
Love (n.) is self-destructive. Find what you love and let it kill you.
Love (n.) is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient.
Love (n.) is sure to end you, but you should find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
Love (n.) is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
Love (n.) is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
Love (n.) is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.
Love (n.) is a word used too much and much too soon.
Love (n.) is like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Love (n.) is the dog that guards the gates of the junk yards in hell.
Life (n.) is as kind as you let it be.
Art (n.) is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.
Art (n.) is to do a dangerous thing with style.
Art (n.) is different from life in this: that art is more bearable
Art (n.) is created by burning and destroying ordinary concepts and substituting them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart
Death (n.) is arriving for every last one of us, but instead of that making us love each other, instead, we are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Death (n.) is not what's terrible. What is terrible is the lives people live or don't live up until their death.
Death (n.) is not the problem; waiting around for it is.
Death (n.) is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
Death (n.) is not something you can beat, but you can beat death in life, sometimes.