Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIf you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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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.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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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 moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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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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