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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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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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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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When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.
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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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Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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To create art means to be crazy alone forever.
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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.
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places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
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nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.
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They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
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True revolution comes from true revulsion when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
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That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
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It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
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News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
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