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.
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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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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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 moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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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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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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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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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 just have to pee in the sink.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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