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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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 wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
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I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.
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We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
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why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)
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I took no pride in my solitude but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
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Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
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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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Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.
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