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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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There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
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That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.
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eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.
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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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When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
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Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
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You don't go on probably when love and guns are in hand.
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There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.
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it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it
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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
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I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
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