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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

“The flesh of my body
Is nothing in my longing. What you think I want
Will be pure dust after hundreds of years and something from me be crying to something from you
High up in their air.”
― Robinson Jeffers, The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

“I know that I have died before—once in November.”
― Anne Sexton

“Every Time a Man Yells

I am seven years old again
and he is packing that suitcase
once more.

Picking me up by the neck,
teaching me obedience.

To be soft,
like a belly of a fish
exposed to a knife.”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers