Quotes About Individualism

Charles Bukowski

What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes." "What is your advice to older writers?" "If you're still alive, you don't need any advice." "What is the impulse that makes you create a poem?" "What makes you take a shit?" "What do you think of Reagan and unemployment?" "I don't think of Reagan or unemployment.

I went into the crapper and took myself a beautiful beershit. Then I went to bed, jacked off, and slept.

Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn't interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored me. Baseball bored me. History bored me. Zoos bored me.

My eyes were blue and nobody loved me but myself.

Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish.

I don't think I was insane but many of the insane think that but i think now if anything saved me it was the avoidance of the crowd

I wasn't interested in world history, only my own. What crap. Your parents controlled your growing-up period, they pissed all over you. Then when you got ready to go out on your own, the others wanted to stick you into a uniform so you could get your ass shot off.

I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..

Se empieza a salvar el mundo salvando a un hombre por vez; todo lo demás es romanticismo grandioso o política

I don't like people

Why can't "They say" let every body settle their own affairs?

But the de-emphasized had the temerity to try to look after themselves in ways that resisted monetization. Their

I didn't come here to make friends.

Un coeur fier peut survivre à un échec général parce qu'un tel échec ne blesse pas son orgueil. C'est plus difficile et plus amer quand un homme échoue tout seul.

I wouldn't put myself under the democratic dictatorship even of angels and archangels.

H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose, as should conservatives.

Modern life undermines any attempt at building communities and making connections with people without commerce.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

The motto of my life is, 'The best advice is no advice at all.'

Among the many preconceptions that cannot be subjected to any empirical test because they are so subjective is the notion that third-party observers know better what is good for people than those people know themselves.

It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--whether parental, priestly, political, or psychiatric--must be careful how and where they assert themselves; for while it is true that the more they assert themselves the more they govern, it is also true that the more they assert themselves the more opportunities they offer for being successfully denied.