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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPeople are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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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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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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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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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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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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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.
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