You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere 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 stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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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.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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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 people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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Only the boring get bored.
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Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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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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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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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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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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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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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
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