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It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
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What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
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I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.
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since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
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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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But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.
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It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
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The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
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There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.
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There is nothing as boring as the truth.
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They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.
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For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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We are all museums of fear.
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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
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How are his poems? He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
Charles Bukowski
