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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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there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy
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it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
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it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
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But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.
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I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
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whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
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If you want to create, you'll create.
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It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
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I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
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she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness and 2 more: youth and beauty
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I knew it would be you
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