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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
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I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
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I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
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