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what matters most is how well you walk through the fire
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
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Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.
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I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
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The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
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Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
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Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
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the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
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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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and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
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Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.
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that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.
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