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We are here to laugh at the odds.
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 drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
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there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.
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I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.
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there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy
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I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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nobody ever finds the one
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I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
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