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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.
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You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.
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Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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too often, the only escape is sleep
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If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.
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Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.
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There's nothing unusual about love.
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In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky if not, green grass.
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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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they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
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Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.
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People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
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Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
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nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
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