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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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 am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
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I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.
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The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.
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Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
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That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.
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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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My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
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Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
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don't be ashamed of anything I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
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