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love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
Charles Bukowski
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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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I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
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People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them they would mean less and less to me.
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there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late
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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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well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you
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I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
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Are you becoming what you've always hated?
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The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
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Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
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You were destroyed by what you befriended.
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When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
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I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.
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There still might be a place for us somewhere.
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