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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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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.
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I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
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I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.
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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.
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she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
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my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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If you want to create, you'll create.
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If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.
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Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
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In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
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A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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