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When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
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and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.
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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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in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.
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...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
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I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?
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What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
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Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.
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They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.
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I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
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I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
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