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Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
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I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
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and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours
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the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
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I'm only interested in poetry.
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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
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In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
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The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
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I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
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there's no defense except all the errors made
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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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It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.
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