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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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My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
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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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Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.
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The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
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it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
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I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
Charles Bukowski
I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.
Charles Bukowski
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.
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I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
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Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.
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Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
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There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.
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Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.
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That's your response to everything: drink? No, that's my response to nothing.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Charles Bukowski
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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If you let them kill you, they will
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We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
Charles Bukowski
I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
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