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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
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the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
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Our disappointment sits between us.
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it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
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A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.
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I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
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I was a man who thrived on solitude without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.
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American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
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I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
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The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
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we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
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The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
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Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.
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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
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People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
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That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
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it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
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