The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBeing alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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 want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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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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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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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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