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Charles Bukowski
American Author
Born: Aug 16, 1920
Died: Mar 9, 1994
Good Life Me Will Writing You
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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
Time Democracy You Vote Voting Dictatorship First Later Take Between Difference Orders Your Waste
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 Alone Nothing Other Circus Eaten Make Up Die Going Flattened Us Should Each
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. Charles Bukowski
Anger Hide Fear Sadness Censorship Face Somewhere Others Tool Our Those Total Only Facts Feel Vent Real Were Existence Upbringing Any Inability Against Them Themselves Appalling Who Need
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
Simple Way Says Simple Thing Simple Way Intellectual Artist Hard Hard Thing Hard Way Thing
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. Charles Bukowski
Good You Cats Better Feeling Nothing Everything Bad About Having Excited Feel Know Look Because Around Bunch Get Just
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
Good You Soul Feel Good Rare Free See Feel Know Because Very Them Near Basically
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. Charles Bukowski
You Yourself Know Friends Get Jail Want Sentence Your Who
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. Charles Bukowski
You People Cats Will Live Hundred Thousand Someday More Longer Discovered Truly Times Forever Than Ridiculous
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. Charles Bukowski
Death Will Odds Live Tremble Our Our Lives Laugh Take Well Us Lives Here
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. Charles Bukowski
Kind Wrong Wrong Kind Like Got Jail Bars
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. Charles Bukowski
You Soul Losing Lose Know Got Still Left Then Your
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. Charles Bukowski
Relax Society Rules Religions Morals Laws Shaped Like Because Am Bum Bums
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. Charles Bukowski
You Women Will Exact More Crowd Knife Feel Make Course Souls Still Expect Front Turn Cuts Bodies Who Right
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. Charles Bukowski
Genius Idiot Everybody Born Almost Buried
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. Charles Bukowski
Life Liar Light My Life Seen Other Would Would-Be Only Mentioned Never Lights Days Wrote Continually Years Up Artist Then Downs
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. Charles Bukowski
Love Torture Betrayal Generally Feels Female His Male Bravado Skilled Exploration Loyal Who
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken. Charles Bukowski
Will First Our Ruin Our Lives Finds Ripe Something Taken Ready Always Depends Which Us Lives
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. Charles Bukowski
Life Alone Wife Single Married Would Would-Be Single Life
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? Charles Bukowski
Good You Women Censorship Met White Complain Say Bad About Blacks Only Write Badly Because Dogs Were Males Who Many Even Homosexuals Need
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth. Charles Bukowski
Truth Fear Humor Discriminating Against Thing
I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions. Charles Bukowski
Good Me Broken Good Job Desperate Job Men Teeth Minds Ways Like Boy Surprises Interest Full Explosions
Humanity, you never had it to begin with. Charles Bukowski
You Humanity Never Had Begin
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. Charles Bukowski
History Men Local Back Like Drunks Dice Bunch Shooting Bar Wasted
I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic. Charles Bukowski
Matter Alive Definite Stay Magic Talent Trade How Largely
Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life. Charles Bukowski
Life Writing Those Been Literature Who
I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles. Charles Bukowski
Faces Feet Heads Like Human Automobiles Conversations Race Human Race
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