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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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eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.
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be it peace or happiness let it enfold you
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bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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