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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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morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
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Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
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and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
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Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
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love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
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purple does something strange to me
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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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It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
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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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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
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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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as the spirit wanes the form appears
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unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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If you want to create, you'll create.
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