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.
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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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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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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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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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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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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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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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 lie as truthfully as I can.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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