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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
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I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
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Baby, I said. I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
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