I wanted the whole world or nothing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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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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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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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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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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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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