The tigers have found me and I do not care.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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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 remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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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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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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