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 BUKOWSKIWe don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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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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