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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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More quotes by Charles Bukowski
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.
Charles Bukowski
be it peace or happiness let it enfold you
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I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
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Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
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You are thirty minutes late. Yes. Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral? No. Why not, pray tell? Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
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There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
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I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
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you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.
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I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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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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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
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I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
Charles Bukowski
I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.
Charles Bukowski
Baby, I said. I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
Charles Bukowski
