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in this land some of us fuck more than
we die but most of us die
better than we fuck


Charles Bukowski

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Fuck you! I hope you die!"
"Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.
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Fuck you in slang and conventional English.
Fuck you in lost and n...
AMY GERSTLER Fuck a Girl in a Right intention is better'
Than to love a girl in a wrong Intention......
SMRUTI SWAIN Now We Think

Now we think
as we fuck
this nut
might kill us.
There m...
ESSEX HEMPHILL Fuck this.
Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people c...
DAVID LEVITHAN when we were kids
laying around the lawn
on our
bellies

we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI Morning, noon & bloody night,
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that ...
PHILIP LARKIN Many of us are more capable than some of us...
but none of us is as capable as all of us!!
TOM WILSON If we say that we have no sin,
We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
Why then...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE We’ve now become the spectators of our own mutation.
We may not die human anymore.
But...
NATASHA TSAKOS Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rod...
NEIL GAIMAN Georgie: I feel stupid.

Andrew: What are you talking about, you feel stupid? You just wal...
THERESA REBECK He who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die
OSCAR WILDE At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We drink to those who love us, we drink to those who don't. We drink to those who fuck us, and fuck ...
TAMSYN BESTER For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.
OSCAR WILDE Fuck socialism!
No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks!
A.E. SAMAAN Keep driving," said a soft voice in my ear. "She will not bite if you keep driving."

Fuck...
DAVID WONG We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery ...
SIMON TUGWELL And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
A...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind

while some ...
SANOBER KHAN Some of you probably hate us but I couldn't give a fuck [can we use that] because we're the best act...
CHRIS MARTIN If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fiel...
JOHN MCCRAE Our shouting is louder than our actions,
Our swords are taller than us,
This is our traged...
نزار قباني we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The land was ours before we were the lands.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Bef...
ROBERT FROST I write poetry, worry, smile,
laugh
sleep
continue for a while
just like most of...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,...
ADRIENNE RICH We must protect them (animals) and this land. If the animals die, this land dies. If this land dies,...
DIANE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN 'Maybe you out to go back there.'

'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's what....
LISA HENRY If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

(Notebooks)
VOLTAIRE Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
AL SHARPMAN My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.
GRAHAM PARKE Most of us can do more than we think but usually do less than we think we have.
VIKRANT PARSAI He kissed her, because fuck it, he was probably about to die.
MAX BARRY I like to prowl ordinary places.
I feel sorry for us all or glad for us
all
caught a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are broken. Our ways are apart.
Still we laugh together and taunt.
We fight and get hur...
IRFA ADAM We were tracking this project really early
on, and it really was about the material itself for ...
DAVID GALE We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We’re, as the saying goes, al...
MARY OLIVER Of all things, only we
have power to choose that we should die;
nothing else is free
in ...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Most of us are capable of more than we believe.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY ...and when we die
we die alone
I cry, I cry alone
Like a piece of stone
I am...
MUNIA KHAN We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul...
SOPHOCLES American Wedding

In america,
I place my ring
on your cock
where it belon...
ESSEX HEMPHILL I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like yo...
E.E. CUMMINGS In the spirit of Ethan's neurosis, we made a drywall list of keyboard buttons we would like to see: ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND I should’ve died with my parents… than live in this world,” I say, my voice is faint
He a...
ALYANNA MALLARI There’s a bigger cause out there. It’s bigger than any of us here. But we stick together, all ri...
MORDRED Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it th...
LAURENCE OLIVIER Can I help you?" said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and go...
NEIL GAIMAN On Telemarketer Phone Calls
“Hello?…Fuck you.
JUSTIN HALPERN When the last leaf falls,
what will die within us?
SHENIZ JANMOHAMED You still want that little secret to stay secret?”

“You wouldn’t.”

“...
B.D. ROCA To die, to sleep --
To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,
For in that sleep of dea...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hello,
How are you?
New in this world?
How old are you??
I'm sure that I know yo...
DEYTH BANGER If Under fell, if Over leaped,
If death was life and Death life reaped,
Something rises fr...
SUZANNE COLLINS In the fall of leaves,
In the hustle of breeze,
In the curve of streams,
I foresee,<...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our peop...
G. K. CHESTERTON Mourn, cry, be sad god doesn't give a fuck. The life has been taken in one or other way and it can't...
DEYTH BANGER People, like us
we feel... too deeply
consumed, in shadow
this game of chance.
T...
BEV FLYNN it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
or that the hummingbird is so seldom CHARLES BUKOWSKI Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
DALE CARNEGIE You curse a lot.'

'Fuck you - I hardly curse at all.
TERE MICHAELS U just gotta a ticket for the new town

"FUCK YOU".
DEYTH BANGER More than being human, we need peace and love.

More than being strong and capable, we nee...
NURUDEEN USHAWU Locke sighed.
'So this is winning,' he said.
'It is,' replied Jean.
'It can go fuck ...
SCOTT LYNCH Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the...
W. H. AUDEN Was es ist

Es ist Unsinn
sagt die Vernunft
Es ist was es ist
sagt die Lieb...
ERICH FRIED Hear folks talkin' about how some of us got the weight of the world on our shoulders? Fuck, maybe we...
PAT SHAND You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. I...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fiction
is better than th...
EUGENE CHAPUS It's almost August, and the last swarm of lovebugs swirls around me, their tiny connected bodies a t...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Fuck your manners."

"You don't have to settle for just my manners.
NENIA CAMPBELL I’ll see you forever
For you are a part of me
And I myself a part of thee
Inseparable i...
DAVID SEVERY Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
SISTER CORITA KENT Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
SISTER CORITA KENT Death Be Not Proud

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty ...
JOHN DONNE There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need
are more ways to experienc...
JOHN DENVER Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
DALE CARNEGIE We all die. Not all of us live.
EDIE LITTLEFIELD SUNDBY It's a theme born out of the Christian faith rather than a pagan understanding of the universe. Both...
SARAH ARTHUR We are not going to die."

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?...
JIM BUTCHER All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK I would rather die trying
than live a life filled with regrets.
CHRISSY BYERS How many of us suffered to death?
How many of them gained more wealth?

How many of u...
RIXA WHITE There are as many kinds of kisses as there are people on earth, as there are permutations and combin...
DIANE DI PRIMA How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big ...
RICK RIORDAN Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.
JASMINE WARGA We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.
JIM BUTCHER Was it just her, or did lovers look more adoringly at each other in this city? Especially in the spr...
KRESLEY COLE Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.
GRANT M. BRIGHT Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay.
Si...
DANIEL CLOWES What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"

"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret th...
SCOTT LYNCH I'm not afraid to die
no today . . . maybe tomorrow.

But I'll not die
no today ...
JOHN ZEA

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Z. ...
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our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
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do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
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they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
...
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that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI las palabras bonitas
como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
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than being alone
but it often takes
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drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
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that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had n...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
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live.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are worse things than being alone,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.

still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI