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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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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.
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The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
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I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
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To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
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The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.
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Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?
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Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.
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