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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.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.
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They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
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