Only the boring get bored.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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