" When Love becomes a command, Hatred can become a pleasure.
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if you don’t gamble, you’ll never win
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Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last
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you can cage a tiger but you’re never sure he’s broken. Men are easier
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if you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.
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there aren’t any angels in the foxholes
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no pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil.
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the difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable
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I’d rather hear about a live American bum than a dead Greek God.
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there is nothing as boring as the truth
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The well balanced individual is insane
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot
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a brave man lacks imagination. Cowardice is usually caused by lack of proper diet.
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sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing
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when men rule governments, men won’t need governments; until then we are screwed
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an intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
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everytime I go to a funeral I feel as if I had eaten puffed wheat germ
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dripping faucets, farts of passion, flat tires — are all sadder than death.
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if you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence "

― Charles Bukowski , Notes of a Dirty Old Man