Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThere are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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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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Before my death I hope to obtain my life
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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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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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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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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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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