An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Charles Bukowski
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
Charles Bukowski
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Charles Bukowski
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Charles Bukowski
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
Charles Bukowski
Never get out of bed before noon.
Charles Bukowski
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski
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
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
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
Charles Bukowski
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Charles Bukowski
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
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