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

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Life's as kind as you let it be.
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nobody ever finds the one
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
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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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There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.
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Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
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It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.
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But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
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dogs and angels are not very far apart
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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
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my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
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There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.
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I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
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Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
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there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.
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