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Charles Bukowski Quotes: If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
         

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.


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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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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.



Fear appears from a false vision of reality.

Fear appears from a false vision of reality.



Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.



Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.



Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.

Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.



I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."



Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.



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Our time on Earth is so random.

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