You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere 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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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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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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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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 went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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