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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThings 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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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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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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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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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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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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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 don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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Only the boring get bored.
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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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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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