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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
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When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
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I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
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mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
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Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted
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That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
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places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
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What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
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I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
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