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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
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places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
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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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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
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There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.
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the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
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American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
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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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That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.
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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
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The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.
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I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
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