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He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.
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I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.
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Are you becoming what you've always hated?
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if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
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And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.
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I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
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I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
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The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
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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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why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)
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You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.
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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and 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
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this time has finished me.
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...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
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He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
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