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Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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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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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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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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my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
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we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
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I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
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They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
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As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.
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