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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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Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.
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there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.
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I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.
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a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
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There's nothing unusual about love.
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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
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It's just that the grape has me down.
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Sundays kill more people than bombs.
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
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God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds they are nothing alone.
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A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.
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Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.
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Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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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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I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
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and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
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We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.
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