Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIYou begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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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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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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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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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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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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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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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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