Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDrinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Only the boring get bored.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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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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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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