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Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
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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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People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
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When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
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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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