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All Quotes by author - Charles Bukowski

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

" An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. "

" Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. "

" Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. "

" Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds. "

" Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. "

" Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours. "

" I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society. "

" I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. "

" If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women? "

" If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. "

" I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic. "

" I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance. "

" I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful. "

" I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. "

" My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar. "

" My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. "

" The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous. "

" There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts. "

" We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. "

" We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. "

" 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. "

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