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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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That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.
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That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.
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We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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nobody ever finds the one
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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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Let' em learn or let' em die
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Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
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Our disappointment sits between us.
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...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
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We are here to laugh at the odds.
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My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
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