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from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
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...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
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well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you
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Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
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you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.
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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.
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