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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
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Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
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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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I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
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They were beautiful nothings
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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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Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?
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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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It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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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 don't go on probably when love and guns are in hand.
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A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
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People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.
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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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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
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