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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
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Our disappointment sits between us.
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Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
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there's no defense except all the errors made
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I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
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unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
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If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.
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