I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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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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