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In New York you've got to have all the luck.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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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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The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.
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There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.
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In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky if not, green grass.
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That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
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and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.
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In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
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Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.
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I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
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Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
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More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.
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I'm only interested in poetry.
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places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
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Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
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Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.
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People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
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