We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDeath meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Without literature, life is hell.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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We must bring our own light to the darkness.
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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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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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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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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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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Life’s as kind as you let it be.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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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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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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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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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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