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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
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Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
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There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.
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The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.
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Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
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we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years
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i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
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Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
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The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
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there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy
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great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
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It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.
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It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.
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