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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
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Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
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I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
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when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.
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The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good
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Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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I am a poem. There is no way out.
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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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I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
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Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.
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He asked, what makes a man a writer? well, I said, it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. are you desperate? I don't know.
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what matters most is how well you walk through the fire
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
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I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down.
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