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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
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Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.
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We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti
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I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
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unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
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I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
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Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
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Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
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...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
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If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.
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Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.
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What were you going to do tonight? I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff. Who's that? A dead Russian.
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Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.
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