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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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why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)
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In New York you've got to have all the luck.
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the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.
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There still might be a place for us somewhere.
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unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
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and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
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And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.
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Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
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He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.
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Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Never get out of bed before noon.
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It's just that the grape has me down.
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The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good
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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
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