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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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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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Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
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Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
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The Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
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I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.
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why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)
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I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.
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I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
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