Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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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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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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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 never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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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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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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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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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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