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Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
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there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.
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human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
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this time has finished me.
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Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
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There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!
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well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you
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How are his poems? He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
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Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
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I am a poem. There is no way out.
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if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.
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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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