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nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
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Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
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