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one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.
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Love is a Dog from Hell.
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The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.
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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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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
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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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It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
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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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Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
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American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
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I was in love again. I was in trouble
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.
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