Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIOnly the boring get bored.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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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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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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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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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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