“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.”

—  Charles Bukowski

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

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American writer 1920–1994

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