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my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.
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There still might be a place for us somewhere.
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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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There is nothing as boring as the truth.
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great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
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If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
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Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.
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Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
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