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Charles Bukowski Quotes

you've got to burnstraight up and downand then maybe sidewisefor a whileand have your gutsscrambled by abullyand the demonicladies, you've got to runalong the edge of madnessteetering, you've got to starvelike a winteralleycat, you've go to livewith the imbecilityof at least a dozencities, then maybemaybemaybeyou might knowwhere you arefor a tinyblinkingmoment.

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