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You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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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.
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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
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People do too much. They say too much.
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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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There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.
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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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Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
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Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.
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When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
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i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
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I have no time for things that have no soul.
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love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
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What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do? Catch butterflies
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I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
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Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.
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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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There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.
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