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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
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Charles Bukowski
Love
Being
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Politics
Time
Man
World
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
Charles Bukowski
Art
Style
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
First
Ruin
Will
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
Dictatorship
Difference
First
Vote
Voting
Waste
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski
People
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
Kitchen
Man
Spiritual
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Charles Bukowski
Taste
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
Charles Bukowski
Style
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
Soul
Losing
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski
Friends
Want
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski
Life
Wife
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Charles Bukowski
Wrong
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
Charles Bukowski
Humanity