I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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