Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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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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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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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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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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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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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Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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