If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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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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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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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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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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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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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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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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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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