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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 hope that death contains less than this.
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don't be ashamed of anything I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
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and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
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It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.
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bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
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I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.
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All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
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People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them they would mean less and less to me.
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That's your response to everything: drink? No, that's my response to nothing.
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People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
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It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
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I write right off the typer. I call it my machinegun. I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.
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Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
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the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
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Love breaks my bones and I laugh
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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw
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