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The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
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Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?
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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
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