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I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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You were destroyed by what you befriended.
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
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my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw
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I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
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Let' em learn or let' em die
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