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Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
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I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.
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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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Our disappointment sits between us.
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.
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I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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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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I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
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A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
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I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead men without eyes, men without voices men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.
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morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
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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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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
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We are here to laugh at the odds.
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agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.
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