Charles Bukowski

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“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

― Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

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“Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.”

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

― Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

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“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

― Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

― Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)