It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
CHARLES BUKOWSKILove 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.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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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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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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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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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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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.
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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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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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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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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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