If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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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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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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