Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBaby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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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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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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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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Without literature, life is hell.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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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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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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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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