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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 can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
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Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.
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What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do? Catch butterflies
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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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Our disappointment sits between us.
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we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
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Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
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I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
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the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.
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The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
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when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.
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Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
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I hope that death contains less than this.
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