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It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.
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well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you
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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 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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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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love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
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hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
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