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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISimplicity 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 guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Only the boring get bored.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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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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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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 less I needed, the better I felt.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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