Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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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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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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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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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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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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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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