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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

Charles Bukowski

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Clock Hands Loneliness Movement World
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Life Minimalism Painting Profound Secret Simplicity Writing
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Atheist Church Education Learning System Teaching
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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Drain Finding Inspirational Kill Love One Liner Weigh
The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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Change Duality Mask One Liner Trouble
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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Bloom Bother Disguise Life Rose Sun Wait
Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Dangerous Success
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Awake Color Finding Forget Love Morning Remember
What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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Ability Desire Hard Time Poverty Time
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Crazy Horrible Humor Live People
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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Alcohol Bar Drunk Hope
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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Beauty Lucky People Ugly
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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Destroy Save Woman
Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Angel Dog One Liner
Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Education Inspirational Knowledge Worse
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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Democracy Difference Vote Wasted Time

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