You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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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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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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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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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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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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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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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The less I needed, the better I felt.
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Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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