#ali

to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think, or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games in a season. or vietnam or israel or the fear of spiders. your love washing her yellow false teeth in the sink before you screw. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#dirty-realism #drugs #legalization #legalize #pot

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#love #nature #spirituality #intelligence

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#immortality #life-and-death #sex #life

...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain... ↗

— John Geddes

#healing #love #peace #rain #love

Thinking of love in terms of romance is like thinking of God in terms of a priest. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#love #religion #romance #spirituality #love

Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul. ↗

— Gianna Perada

#healing #life-and-living #moving #pain #rebirth

The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra. ↗

— William T. Vollmann

#music #time #death

I have not once felt a thing for the male sex, I was only interested in the fairer sex. Mine. ↗

— Novala Takemoto

#lesbian #love #love

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool? ↗

— Stendhal

#personality #wisdom #love

I feel alive when you kiss me. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#desire #kiss #love #lust #romance-novel