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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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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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The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.
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I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.
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I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
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And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.
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Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.
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Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
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It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.
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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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There's nothing unusual about love.
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the sea is made of blood
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nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
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The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
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Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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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.
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since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
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Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
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I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?
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