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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

Charles Bukowski

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Ability Consideration Feeling Freedom Lack Love Moral People
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Be Yourself Inspirational Remember
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
Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Fuck Happiness Inspirational Love Wasted Time
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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Alone Limitation Loneliness Necessary Real
Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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Angel Dog One Liner
I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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Broken Heart Expectation Lost Want
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
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Beginning Politics Romantic Save Time World
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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Alcohol Celebration Drink Funny Humor Sarcastic
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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Alone Circus Die Each Other Eat Love
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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Defeat Serious Victory
Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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Deep Human Being Love Possible
Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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Alone Beware Constant Crowd
Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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Alone Comfortable Hate People
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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Bed Climb Humor Inside Laugh Morning Time
Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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Kind Life One Liner
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
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
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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Bad Character Constant Reveal Stress Struggle
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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Ability Love Positive Self Love
Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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Death Hope Inspirational Life Obtain One Liner
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
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Atheist Church Education Learning System Teaching
Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Dangerous Success
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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Bore Earth Horror People Show
Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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Attitude Baby Believe Genius Self Love
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Expectation Girl Look Nightmare Stop

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

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