It was a joy! Words weren't dull,...

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

- Charles Bukowski

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When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

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I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios . . . We were all in it together. We were all in one big shit pot together. There was no escape. We were all going to be flushed away.

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The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.

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That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

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the first place smelled like work, so I took the second

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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

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