Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
CHARLES BUKOWSKISex 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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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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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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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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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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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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