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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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Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
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If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
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The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.
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there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.
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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.
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Let' em learn or let' em die
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and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it
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I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
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Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
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Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.
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It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
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I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down.
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Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
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