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Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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He asked, what makes a man a writer? well, I said, it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. are you desperate? I don't know.
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
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I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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