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If you think your job is real, get cancer and be given six months to live. Then see if you give a fuck about your job.
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“Stop being a pussy and go do something amazing.”
― The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You
― The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You
“I sit here
drunk now.
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
without committing murder
or being
murdered;
without
having ended up in the
madhouse.
as I drink alone
again tonight
my soul despite all the past
agony
thanks all the gods
who were not
there
for me
then.”
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last
drunk now.
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
without committing murder
or being
murdered;
without
having ended up in the
madhouse.
as I drink alone
again tonight
my soul despite all the past
agony
thanks all the gods
who were not
there
for me
then.”
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”
―
―
“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”
― The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems – Gritty and Inspiring Unpublished Verse by Charles Bukowski
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”
― The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems – Gritty and Inspiring Unpublished Verse by Charles Bukowski
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