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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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 think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
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beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
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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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Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
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i dunno, i said, but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
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If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.
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You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.
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He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
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Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!
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God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
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I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.
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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
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I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
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Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
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I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.
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