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Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
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Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
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that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
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The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
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