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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 am this fiery snail crawling home.
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But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.
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I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.
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I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories
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The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.
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...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
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I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.
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I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.
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there's no defense except all the errors made
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The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.
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I have no time for things that have no soul.
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
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I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
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When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
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Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.
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... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.
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It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.
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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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