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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
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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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it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
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It was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. There were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tried to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.
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I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.
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Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.
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it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
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But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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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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I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
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