Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"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."
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Ordinary World
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"I have no time for things that have no soul."
Sufjan Stevens
Musician
"If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?"
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"You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world."
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