Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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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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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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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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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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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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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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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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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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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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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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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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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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