An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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