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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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we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.
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I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
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I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.
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we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.
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The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good
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I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
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some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
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nobody ever finds the one
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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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Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
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The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.
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I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
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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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We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
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I was a man who thrived on solitude without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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