The Genius Of The Crowd there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace those who preach god, need god those who preach peace do not have peace those who preach peace do not have love beware the preachers beware the knowers beware those who are always reading books beware those who either detest poverty or are proud of it beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete and then they will hate you and their hatred will be perfect like a shining diamond like a knife like a mountain like a tiger like hemlock their finest art
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i... CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know. CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough... CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe... CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking up and down this room smoking my cigars taking hits of my <... CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca... CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI