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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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This incompleteness is all we have.
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Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
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If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
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To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
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there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.
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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 can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?
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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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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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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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An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
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