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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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But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.
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Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.
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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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This incompleteness is all we have.
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I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories
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Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad
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whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?
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and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
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I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight
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There's nothing unusual about love.
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Let' em learn or let' em die
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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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hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
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Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.
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my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
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You were destroyed by what you befriended.
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People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
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He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.
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