My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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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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Without literature, life is hell.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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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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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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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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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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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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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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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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