The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnything 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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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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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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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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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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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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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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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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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