I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative … - Charles Bukowski

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Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

Charles Bukowski

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

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Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

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and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

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I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

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Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.

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