Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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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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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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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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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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