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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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A coward is a man capable of foreseeing the future. A brave man is almost always a man without imagination.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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Love? Come on, people don't want love; people want to succeed, and one of the things they can do that is in love.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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Knowledge, if not applied, is worse than ignorance.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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That was all a man needed: hope. It was the lack of hope that sank a man.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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Anything can drive a man crazy because society is built on false foundations.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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If something bad happens, you drink to forget it; if something good happens, you drink to celebrate it; and if nothing happens, you drink to make something happen.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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There are those who lose their mind completely to be soul: mad. There are those who lose their soul completely to be mind: intellectuals. There are those who lose both to be accepted.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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There are times when a man has to fight so much for life that he doesn't even have time to live it.

William M. Bulger

William M. Bulger

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There is no better measure of what a person is than what they do when they have complete freedom to choose.