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All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I was a man who thrived on solitude without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
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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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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
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Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.
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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
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The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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I hope that death contains less than this.
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My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
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she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.
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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 held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
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