Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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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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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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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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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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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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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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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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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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