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

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


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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.

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.



The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.




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.

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.



Find what you love and let it kill you.

Find what you love and let it kill you.



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.

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.



Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.



Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.



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

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



I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.





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Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?

Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?



I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.



Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.



That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty



It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.



I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!

I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!



In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.

In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.



In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.

In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.



No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.



The life of an actor can be very enviable.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.




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